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Introduction Given that historians look to those who are contemporaries of the events, Paul is an important resource for what historians can know about Jesus of Nazareth. Furthermore, the earliest documents we have for the life of Jesus are Paul’s… Continue reading →

How did Jesus view the Scriptures? Obviously, there was no New Testament at the time he walked on the earth. The structure of this argument may be formalized as follows: Read a fuller form  from the book In Defense of the… Continue reading →

Anyone who has done a fair amount of apologetics  has probably heard the response, “I remain unpersuaded.” In other words, a skeptic has heard an argument presented and while others might be persuaded, they remain unconvinced. So does this mean the… Continue reading →

Many years ago Rachmiel Frydland (an outstanding Polish-born Messianic Jew and survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto) once told me in Yiddish: “If we give the rabbis the right to define who is a Jew, then we will also be giving them the right to define who is the Messiah.” His pearl of wisdom has remained […]

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Here is a helpful clip by Michael S. Heiser again. I always find with either Jewish anti-missionaries or atheists, they always want the what Richard Longenecker calls “mathematical precision.”  Longenecker says: So-called ‘proof from prophecy’ of a direct nature has always been… Continue reading →

In this clip, we discuss the various kinds of doubt, the quest for certainty, and the tools we have at our disposal to deal with doubt.

Introduction Over the years, I have had my share of discussions with people about Jesus. I can say without hesitation that one of the most common objections I hear is the following: “I think Jesus was a good teacher, but… Continue reading →

In Ephesians 2:15, Paul wrote that Christ broke down the wall of division

between Jew and Gentile “by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in

ordinances.” But what does Paul mean by this phrase? Is Paul saying that

Christ abolished the Law of Moses, or something else?

A ways back, I was listening to the exchange of a debate between skeptic Richard Carrier and Marc Goodacre. Carrier said the one of the first places to start looking at the evidence for Jesus is Paul’s Letters. After all, they… Continue reading →

Given that historians look to those who are contemporaries of the events, Paul is an important resource for what historians can know about Jesus of Nazareth. Furthermore, the earliest documents we have for the life of Jesus are Paul’s letters.… Continue reading →