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Why Didn’t Paul Quote Jesus?
Doesnt the fact that Paul didnt quote Jesus show that he wasnt interested in Him as a real person but only as a means of promoting his new faith in a (metaphorically) “risen Christ”? Christians have...
View ArticleDoes The Fact That Few Ancient Non-Christian Sources Refer To Christ Imply He...
Why should anyone expect mention of Jesus in surviving Roman and Greek literature? Palestine was a relatively minor province on the periphery of Roman/Hellenistic civilization. Christianity would have...
View ArticleDo Their Miracles Imply The Gospels Are Legendary?
When, as the story goes, Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree and saw an apple fall, he already believed that God was ultimately responsible both for the apple’s existence and its fall from the...
View ArticleWhy Do Many Western People Doubt the Accuracy of the Gospels?
There is an old saying that “familiarity breeds contempt.” The Gospels are so familiar in Western culture, and were so deeply influential in its shaping, that Westerners often fail to think about them...
View ArticleWhat Are Some Arguments Used to Downplay the Significance of the Gospels?
The arguments used by unbelieving scholars to discredit the Christian Gospels and downplay their significance have changed through the decades as they were shaped by contemporary thinking. Because they...
View ArticleAs Oral Recollections, Can the Gospels Be Historically Accurate?
Christians have always believed that though serious questions could be raised about the Gospels, the things recorded in them were true. From the beginning of the church, when the original witnesses of...
View ArticleDid Jesus really exist?
Considering the historical context, it’s remarkable that Jesus was mentioned at all in non-Christian historical documents. Yet while there is little reason we should expect first- and second-century...
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