Sixty six books, forty or more authors, written over thousands of years, written on three continents, in three different languages, by people from diverse walks of life. Normally, if we had such a collection of books and authors, how likely would it be that they would agree on controversial topics? Topics such as the nature of God, what is right and wrong, how one is made right with God, etc.
It would be hard to get agreement on these topics even in one time period, one language, one profession, or even one church!
Yet in the Bible we have consistent agreement on these questions. For example,...
As 2012 marches on, we draw slowly closer to the infamous date of 12/21/2012, which for some, because it is the end point of the Mayan calendar and supposedly predicted by the French astrologer Nostradamus, is believed to be the “end of the world”. But who should we listen to, and what is the difference between prophets like Nostradamus, and Biblical prophets?
Many think of Nostradamus when they think of prophecy. But when we read his prophecies, called “quatrains”, one notices right away how vague they are, and how many different events could be made to fit them.
For example,...
As we head into the Easter season and springtime, the thoughts of Christians everywhere turn to the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. So does the attention of writers of articles in the paper and magazines, and television specials. However, it seems intellectually fashionable these days for scholars to refer to the Easter event in an doubtful, nebulous way. "Something" happened, many of them say, but we can never know what. And that is a start, being at least a minor concession for a skeptic.However, as Habermas and Licona point out in their book The Case for the Resurrection...