Jesus, Messianic Prophecy, and a Question of Judaisms
Perhaps you’ve heard this question before: “How can Jesus be the Messiah when he didn’t fulfill any of the prophecies?” A typical Christian might be surprised a...
Category: Biblical Studies
Bart Ehrman and the Historical Reliability of the Bible (Part 2)
Continuing with my analysis of Bart Ehrman’s basic arguments against the reliability of the gospels, I wish to comment on a few more points he made in his debat...
Bart Ehrman, and the Historical Reliability of the Gospels (Part 1)
Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar at the University of North Carolina who is most famous for his books, Misquoting Jesus, Jesus Interrupted, and his most r...
Twitter Conversations: The Bible, Objectivity and Subjectivity
In the course of my Twitter conversations over the weekend, the atheists I talked with were, by and large, a lot more open to discuss than were the Hamites, and...
Ken Ham’s Fascination with Virgins, Doors, and His Propensity to Shut Them–Part 1 (Plus a Brief Overview of Matthew 21-27 that will Blow You Away)
By all means, please like this post, and please share it! A couple of days ago, Ken Ham re-tweeted a previous post he had written back on March 19, 2012: “The D...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Faith and Intolerance (Part 6)
We’ve now come to the point in our analysis of Sam Harris’ book, The End of Faith, where we will look at the specific things he has to say about “faith.” ...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: A Biblical Scholar, He Ain’t (Part 5)
I’ve found that in the course of my critiques of books by atheist writers like Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, that it is actually quite invigorating exerc...
Sam Harris and “The End of Faith”: Hear nothing good, see nothing good…at least not in Christianity! (Part 4)
It should come as no surprise in a book entitled, The End of Faith, that Harris refuses to even consider that there might be something to religion in general, a...
Biblical Intertextuality (Part 8): Jonah and A.I.
The final movie I want to discuss is the science-fiction film A.I. It is unique in that although it contains much of the same imagery and symbolism f...
Biblical Intertextuality (Part 7): Jonah, Pinocchio, and a New Creation
One of the things I loved to do when I covered Jonah in my 9th grade Old Testament class was show my class the movie Pinocchio by Roberto Benigni. I wouldn’t sh...