By Mikel Del Rosario The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife So your skeptical friend just heard about something called, “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.” But unlike the fiction Dan Brown created in the Da Vinci Code, this wasn’t in a movie or a novel. She just caught another...
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Did The Historical Jesus Rise from The Dead?
By Luke Nix Introduction - Why Is Jesus' Resurrection So Important? Those who have followed this blog know that I focus a lot of my writing on defending the compatibility of science with the Christian worldview and that I spend much energy addressing philosophical and...
Book Review: The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ
By Luke Nix Introduction In my late teens and early 20s, I was wrestling with many questions about what I believed. I had several challenges to my Christian faith that ranged from the philosophical to the scientific to the historical. One of the challenges that would...
Does The Minimal Facts Approach Dishonor God’s Word?
By Evan Minton The Minimal Facts Approach is an approach to establishing the truth of Jesus' resurrection using two criteria; (1) they must be facts that have a lot of evidence in their favor, and (2) these facts must be universally or nearly universally agreed upon...
Why Is There Even A Jesus Myth Theory?
By Stephen Bedard I have spent much of my apologetics activity responding to the Jesus myth theory. My first book (co-authored with Stanley Porter) Unmasking the Pagan Christ and my first journal article were both responses to the Jesus myth theory. Although generally...
A Case for the Empty Tomb (Part 3-The Biblical and Theological Arguments)
By Brian Chilton For the previous couple of weeks, we have looked into the veritability of the empty tomb hypothesis; that is, that the tomb of Jesus was literally found empty on the first Easter Sunday morning. We have already confirmed historically that the tomb was...
A Case for the Empty Tomb (Part 2: Historical Evidence)
By Brian Chilton The previous section examined the arguments posed against the empty tomb hypothesis. The blog demonstrated in the first article that the arguments against the empty tomb hypothesis fail greatly. This article will provide a historical argument for the...
Examining Jesus by the Historical Method (Part 8: Two Final Methods and Conclusion)
By Brian Chilton For the past several weeks, we have been investigating how the historical Jesus of Nazareth fares by being tested by the traditional historical method. Before wrapping up our investigation, NT scholar Michael Licona provides two additional tests that...
Examining Jesus by the Historical Method (Part 7: Eyewitness Testimony–The Gospel Witnesses)
By Brian Chilton Last week, we discussed the eyewitness testimony for Jesus by demonstrating the validity of the Gospel records. Such an endeavor was important to establish particular witnesses found within the Gospel accounts. We have seen that one holds good reasons...
Examining Jesus by the Historical Method (Part 6: Eyewitness Testimony–The Case for the Gospels)
By Brian Chilton As we have engaged in our evaluation of Jesus according to the historical method, my previous articles have demonstrated that the historical Jesus passes the historical method with flying colors. However, we must continue our quest in asking, “Do we...
Examining Jesus by the Historical Method (Part 5-Early Testimony: Early New Testament Texts)
By Brian Chilton This article picks up where the last article left off. We continue our glimpse at the early testimony for Jesus of Nazareth. The Argument for the Early Dating of the Synoptic Gospels The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are all said to be the...