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Some scholars say the New Testament writers invented many of the details of Jesus’ life and sayings and that they put words in His mouth. Is this true? Answer: Some modern scholars are inclined to dismiss much of the New Testament, especially the Gospels, as inventions of the authors rather than real history. Many people embrace this idea because they don’t want to be under the authority of what Jesus said, and so they claim His words were not His words at all, but invented by the Gospel writers to meet some social or political need. But what does the evidence show? In the writings of the New Testament...
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Many try to say today that the bible writers invented history or played fast and loose with the facts. But how does this claim stand when checked out by archaeology? One book that especially lends itself to archaeological verification is the Acts of the Apostles, believed by most scholars to be authored by Luke, the author of the third Gospel. Sir William Ramsay, who was one of the greatest archaeologists to have ever lived, began a study of the book of Acts as a skeptic, believing it was written in the second century and not historical. As he studied he uncovered evidence that indicated otherwise,...
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One of the most powerful reasons we can believe the New Testament is real history, is that most of the original apostles and other disciples died to bring us this history. As many have said, no one dies for what they know is a lie, so if they died for their beliefs, we can be sure they were not inventing history. It is also true that the original eyewitnesses of Jesus died for what they witnessed and knew to be true, not from second hand reports such as martyrs in other religions and cults. But some critics have tried to cast doubt on whether or not the original apostles or other early disciples...
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A common objection heard among skeptics today is that there is little to no evidence for Jesus outside the gospels. Why isn't there more evidence? Let me give a general overview in this article, with more specifics to follow in future articles. First, the fact is that from the first century we have a very very small sample of ancient Roman and Greek writings that have survived. Further, why would they have written about Jesus anyway? Roman attention tended to be focused on military and insurrectionist threats, not a minor religious group from a small town. They also tended not to pay too much...
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In Part one of this series on the last 12 verses of Mark, I gave some reasons why the last 12 verses in the Gospel of Mark may be part of the Bible after all. In this article, I want to present some exciting evidence discovered by Russian scholar Ivan Panin about the last 12 verses of Mark. Ivan Panin devoted a whole book just to the last twelve verses of Mark.[2] I have included a detailed description of his findings on this passage which will serve as an example to illustrate the extent and consistency of numerical patterns Panin had also found in many other parts of the whole Bible. Panin...
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Does your Bible have a note in it saying that in the Gospel of Mark, the last twelve verses (Mk. 16:9-20) are not in the earliest manuscripts of the New Testament? Let’s consider that the last twelve verses of Mark―a passage that many textual critics say does not belong in the Bible, may nevertheless be inspired text. Now, it turns out that if these verses are left out of the Bible, no essential doctrines of the Christian faith are affected whatsoever. But I am going to take a minority position here, and I will defend it with some facts that need to be brought out. There has been...
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So did they find the tomb of Jesus? Has the resurrection been disproved? Not a chance! This is just another one of the recent attempts to dupe who the promoters count on being the un-informed public. The Jesus tomb: There was a tomb, an ossuary or “bone box,” found in Jerusalem in 1980 which reportedly had the names of a Joseph, Mary, Mariamne Mara (whom they took for Mary Magdalene) and a “Jesus son of Joseph.”A film documentary was made in 2007 by James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici suggesting it was the family tomb of Jesus. But practically no serious scholars give this idea...
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Did Judas the traitor really write his own gospel? This one is really good fodder for conspiracy theorists. But don't go looking for the "real truth" in this document just yet. The “Gospel of Judas” is written in Coptic, and the earliest copy dates from about the third century. When it was found, the news media and popular books portrayed it as a new discovery, but this false gospel was known all the way back in the days of Irenaeus in the second century. Irenaeus mentioned the Gospel of Judas in his work Against Heresies and called it invented history, written by a Gnostic...
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Many claim today that the Gospel of Thomas, one of several ancient documents discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi in Egypt, should be considered as valid as the other four gospels we currently have in our Bible. It is a document which claims to contain sayings of Jesus, some which are not included in the canonical gospels. Should it be included in our Bibles as the inspired word of God? If not, why not? After all, some books that are now in the Bible were disputed, such as Hebrews and 2 Peter and Revelation. The canonical books that were disputed gave internal evidence of being inspired...
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So were there a lot of different versions of Christianity early on, and did our version just happen to win out by luck or by force? If we found another type of early "Christianity", does that mean we must change the way we believe?The view that there were different types of Christianity in the early church has been put forth by a number of scholars, including Bart Ehrman and Elaine Pagels, as well as popular books like The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown. They teach that there were many diverse beliefs about Christ in the early church, and the official version of Christianity we have today won out only...
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