(Image- Princeton) Just before Easter, James Tabor and Simcha Jacobovici made all sorts of sensational claims about their discovery of a new ‘Patio’ tomb at Talpiot. These are the same guys who brought us the supposed ‘Jesus Family Tomb’ a couple of years ago. They produced a book and a documentary all about their new [...]

               (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Its Easter season which means it’s time to seriously attack Christianity in the media.  Magazine articles, documentaries on TV, books, pseudo research into Christian origins and the Bible. All stacked heavily against traditional teachings about Jesus and the origins of Christianity. Each with a variety of professors supposedly exposing the real [...]

(P52 Fragment via Wikipedia) From the Christian Post: Dallas Theological Seminary professor Daniel B. Wallace has said that newly discovered fragments from the Gospel of Mark could be the oldest New Testament artifacts ever found and date from the first century A.D., or during the time of eyewitnesses of Jesus’ resurrection. … Wallace explained that [...]

                             (Image via Wikipedia) It has become culturally fashionable to make the claim that “Jesus never said he was God.” Lots of folks would like to claim Jesus as their own but his divinity gets in the way. The Muslims claim Jesus was a great prophet to the Jews but far less than even their [...]

              (Image by jakebouma via Flickr) In the Gospels we see Jesus born in Bethlehem and visiting in the Temple at 12 but the next time we see him he is being baptized by John the Baptist and begins his ministry at 30 years of age. What did Jesus do for the 18 years in [...]

Richard Dawkins: "Jesus Would Have Been An Atheist If He Had Known What We Know Today" This is probably the most offensive thing he has ever said. As usual he is implying here that any person with any kind of intelligence today is an atheist. So obviously it follows, from Dawkins’ perspective, that any smart [...]

                                                (Image via Wikipedia) Anyone who has attempted to read some of the early New Testament Greek manuscripts can appreciate the difficulties inherent in the task. Here’s a short but excellent article by Dr. Ben Witherington on 2 major problems presented by the early texts:  “Nomina Sacra in Early Christian Manuscripts” Here’s the two: 1) [...]

(Image via Wikipedia) This is a continuation of the previous post which addressed the idea that Jesus was merely a myth that was borrowed from other ancient religions:  -Is Jesus a Myth? Another popular misconception is that the only references to Jesus are contained in the New Testament. Here’s a link an article listing early [...]

Is Jesus a myth? No. The idea seems rather preposterous to most Christians with a living breathing relationship with the Son of God. But it sure has become popular in pop culture to say that he is. Here’s an article by Mary Jo Sharp that addresses the theory that Jesus was merely a myth that [...]

Here’s a lecture Dr. Peter J. Williams presenting  “New Evidences the Gospels were Based on Eyewitness Accounts”.  Dr. Williams of the University of Cambridge answers some common objections and builds a case for understanding the Gospels as a representation of eyewitness accounts. Particularly good for answering some of the latest conjectures of Dr. Bart Ehrman: [...]