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Has anyone every told you they just can't believe the Bible because they believe that it condones the institution of slavery? This is a favorite target area for critics, because nowhere in the Bible does it command the total abolition of slavery. Indeed, instructions are given for proper behavior for masters and slaves, with no mention of abolition. So does the Bible actually endorse slavery, especially the kind we are most familiar with, the oppressive slavery of the American antebellum South? First, we need to understand the cultural context in which the Bible was written. Then, we also...
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What about some of the more recent attempts to explain away Christ's resurrection? Were the resurrection accounts legends that grew up around an ordinary man? Did He not really die on the cross, as put forth in the book The Jesus Papers? Was the tomb of Jesus actually found? Let's look at the facts: Not legends Early eyewitness testimony based on appearances is basis for the origin of the belief in the resurrection, not later legends arising.[1] There is no parallel historical case for legends developing so quickly after the events themselves.[2] Legends...
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In the previous two articles, we looked at the false charge that the resurrection of Christ was borrowed from pagan myths. We saw in the first article that there were many fallacies in this theory, and we provided rebuttal for specific charges of myth-borrowing in part 2 of this series. Now we want to look briefly at the unique character of the death and resurrection of Christ to show how it makes no logical sense for it to have been borrowed from any pagan mythology. His death and resurrection, unlike pagan myths, were events firmly rooted in history. Claims of resurrections in other...
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In my previous article I listed six fallacies of the theory that the resurrection of Christ was borrowed from pagan myths. In this article we will separate myth from fact, and truth from exaggeration, as we look at some examples. Attis: The Claims: Attis was a saviour slain for mankind, he was crucified on a tree on "Black Friday", after three days he was resurrected. The taurobolium connected with the religion of Attis and Cybele was a blood baptism by which one was born again. The Truth: Attis was never recognized as a "saviour", only as a protector of tombs. Attis was not crucified...
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Has a bible skeptic told you that the resurrection account of Jesus was borrowed from pagan myths, and therefore was not real history? Your child may come home from college with a shattered faith after hearing from a professor that many pagan religions had saviour-gods who died and rose again, and so the story of Jesus was made up history. Even though most well-informed scholars have abandoned this idea, it is still very popular among internet skeptics and atheist web sites, and may sway someone who is not properly informed. I want to show you in this series of articles that these so-called...
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Were there extra books in the Old Testament that have been hidden, and are only in some bibles but not others? Why aren't all bibles the same? If you look in a New American or Jerusalem edition of the Bible, you will find 12 extra books in the Old Testament part of the Bible, commonly referred to as the "Apocrypha" which means "hidden". They consist of the books of Wisdom, Sirach, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Tobit, Judith, Additions to Esther, Suzanna, Bel and the Dragon, Baruch, Epistle of Jeremiah, and Song of the Three Children. (There are also other books not included in any bible that are considered...
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Bible critics often say that Moses did not write the first five books of the Bible (the Pentateuch), but that it was written by several authors at a much later time. Perhaps in your college religion class, your professor told you that only naive people believe that Moses actually wrote any of the Bible, but now we modern scholars know better? The question is, do they really know this for a fact? We've seen in a previous article that Archaeology shows writing existed in Moses's time and confirms the antiquity of the Pentateuch. But there is plenty of other kinds of evidence that support...
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As we saw in the previous article on the Documentary Hypothesis, pastors and seminarians are still being taught that rather than Moses, four guys known as J, E, P, and D wrote the first five books of the Bible (The Pentateuch). We saw how flawed their methods were. But why is this still being taught? Does archaeology support the JEDP Hypothesis? The JEDP theory ignores archaeology and claims that there couldn't have been writing at the time of Moses in 11500-1400 B.C.E. Remember, they dated the documents of the Pentateuch at 850 B.C.E. at the earliest. But we have the following discoveries: The...
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In many of our seminaries today, it is taught that the first five books of the Bible (The Pentateuch) were not composed by Moses or revealed in any supernatural way, but rather were written by many different authors who were inventing the Jewish Law and history for political reasons. Each supposedly wrote with his own style and vocabulary. Then editors and redactors supposedly combined them into what we have today. This theory was first proposed in the late 1700's and developed fully by the late 1800's into a complicated "modern" account of how the Pentateuch was written. The theory...
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If you ask most Christians if they believe God created the universe and the earth, they will answer yes. The book of Genesis provides an account of that creation in Chapters 1 and 2. But when you ask Bible believers whether they can take Genesis 1 and 2 as straightforward history, the stumbling begins. Some will say that you can take it literally and plainly, that God created in six literal twenty four hour days, some will say that the days were eons or geological ages, and still others will take the Genesis accounts as non historical poetry or even reworked myths from ancient Babylonian...
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