- How Do We Know Jesus Was a Real Person & Not A Myth? Could The Resurrection Be A Borrowed Myth? Could The Resurrection Be A Legend Added Later To The Bible? Was The Body Really Missing? Did The Disciples Steal The Body & Lie About The Resurrection? Were The Disciples Hallucinating or Hypnotized? Did Jesus Pass Out & Revive In The Tomb? Is Resurrection Even Possible? Why Believe In The …
- Scientists rely on data when forming a hypothesis. Here just a few topics of research that point toward a creator. The Big Bang Theory The atomic spectral lines in starlight exhibit a shift in wavelength caused by the Doppler Effect. The observed wavelengths get longer if the star is moving away from us or shorter if the star is moving toward us. In every direction astronomers look there is a red …
- Without God there is no hope for the people who are being harmed daily. Without God we are lost. Without God the whole world is lost & there is no point to life that fades like the flowers in the clearing before it is overgrown once again. God, our God, though, is always with us! Thank you, Lord, for being our ever present help in times of trouble. Without you, your strength & your grace …
- Verifiable Near Death Experiences (NDEs) can be good evidence to suggest life after death is true, but not everyone agrees. By NDE I mean the person is usually in a hospital hooked up to the usual heart & brain monitors & for a period of time they show flatlined responses. During this period of time they may have experiences of one kind or another. Some say NDEs are just due to oxygen …
- I’ve gone down rabbit holes over the years & found truths that the world did not believe. At first I thought it was a lack of good information leading people astray. Eventually, though, I came to see in many cases truth was countered by disinformation to hide corruption. I wanted to fight the disinformation, but only got labelled a conspiracy theorist when sharing truth. Over the years …
- A doubt often echoed online is that Jesus was just a good person or teacher. How do we know he claimed to be divine? Helloo? He is called the Son of God about 40 times in the New Testament & he called God his Abba, Father, Papa really. That was blasphemous back then. Today’s skeptics say not so fast. All christians are in a sense the sons & daughters of God, so how do we really know he …
- This story is an excerpt from my faith journey article that I wrote back in 2006 for our church newsletter. Many people seem to like hearing it, although it’s probably only a good reason to believe for me rather than you. This isn’t the only reason I switched from being a skeptic to a believer, but it sure softened me up for other events that followed in my life. Call it a huge …
- God’s greatest power might be the ability to turn the bad into good. Why? It all started in ’94……
- In 1 Cor 15:14 & 17, Paul says if Jesus has not been raised, your faith is useless. It was music to my skeptical ears. I said I would try at some point to summarize the arguments for Jesus’ Resurrection based on Gary Habermas & Michael Licona’s “The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus“. They use a list of evidence ‘widely accepted’ by scholars & …
- We put people in 2 classes, atheists & christians or more generally believer & unbeliever, but I look at it another way. Maybe it will be useful to someone.…
- I liked this column by Steve Ridgell on John 14:6. If I were a pastor, I could preach a whole sermon on it. Most people seem to think we have to fall down on our knees and accept Jesus get to heaven. I prefer to think of it as the best way, but not the only way. …
- We can apply this argument to anything violent that happens whether it is the Holocaust or someone going postal in a school, mall or workplace. The problem with the logic is that God didn’t pull the trigger. A person did. In the case of the Holocaust, it was a group of people.…
- I’m torn on how to answer to this one. Whether I should tell you what I think or tell you what Strobel said in his books or use the points made by Habermas & Licona in The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus. Whether theirs or mine, it’s all stuff from previous posts with only a little new info. What I decided was to give you the key points that led me to believe in the …
- Passing out during crucifixion is like passing out underwater. Stop moving, stop breathing, die in the time it takes to drown.…
- Hmm, how about such things wouldn’t explain it. No, really, that’s the answer for both of them.…
- They sound like unrelated questions, but they have a common answer. Enemy attestation. Say what? English, por favor? The disciples’ enemies did not deny the claims that Jesus died on the cross or that the tomb was empty. They argued over what happened to the body.…
- The only disciple whose fate I can remember ever being mentioned growing up was Judas. Judas hangs himself in remorse (Mt 27:5) after the Sanhedrin condemns Jesus. So what happened to the other 11? They settled down, get married & live happily ever after on the royalties from all those stories? No, unfortunately, the majority died for their beliefs, for being christians and …
- The principle of embarrassment applies here. If you were making up a story, why would you include things that make you look bad? The gospels include embarrassing or problematic details.…
- The gospels were written too soon for a legend to appear. Legends take many years to develop, because the first & secondhand eyewitnesses have to die off before the truth can be distorted. Otherwise the eyewitnesses say that’s not what happened.…
- The short answer on translations is new translations are based on the oldest greek & hebrew text. They are not translations of translations of translations. A difference in wording between modern translations like the Lord’s Prayer in Mt. 6:12 (…forgive us our debts vs. trespasses or sins), means translators disagree on what phrase best expresses the original idea. The …
- There are several aspects of the story of Jesus death & resurrection that are fairly unique. He dies once, so that the sins of mankind can be forgiven. He predicts his own death & resurrection. Predicting your own death isn’t a big trick if you are suicidal, but fulfilling that resurrection part is a little harder for the rest of us. That’s not the point …
- There actually is plenty of evidence that Jesus was a real person & the story of his life & death is not a myth. His crucifixion is attested to outside the Bible by Tacitus, Josephus & Pliny the Younger. All 3 were non-Christians writing in the 1st & early 2nd centuries AD.…
- Ever sit in church on Easter & wonder if 2000 years of worship by zillions of people was just one huge cosmic joke? I did. I used to feel like a liar for coming to church anytime, but especially on Easter. What if Jesus was a myth or maybe he just passed out on the cross & revived in the tomb? We’d be believing a lie. The Apostle Paul was pretty blunt about it in 1 …