We now come to my final post in this short series involving my look at the book, Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus?, that covers a debate on that topic by New Testament scholars Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans. A Note About John’s GospelBefore I move onto both scholars’ concluding statements and…
We now come to Part 2 of my short blog series on the book Can we Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? that is essentially the transcript of a debate between Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans. As was obvious from Part 1, Ehrman’s answer to that question is a definitive “No,” based on the…
Just recently, a new book came out entitled, Can We Trust the Bible on the Historical Jesus? It is essentially the transcript from a debate between Bart Ehrman and Craig Evans over the issue of the historical reliability of the Gospels concerning the life of Jesus. My only criticism of the book is that I…
Here in this final installment of my look at Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus, I want to discuss what I feel is the deeper, underlying issue, not only to what Sledge discusses in his book, but to so much that is problematic in so many Christian-Atheist debates about Christianity in general and the Bible in…
Here in Part 4 of my analysis of Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus, I’m going to delve into a curious phenomenon I have noticed with many former Christians, particularly ex-Evangelicals/Fundamentalists, when it comes to them explaining why the left the faith. Now, as we’ve seen with Sledge’s life story, there were a variety of things…
We now come to Part 3 of my analysis of Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus—a book in which he recounts his life story into Christianity, into the ministry, and eventually out of Christianity altogether. In Part 1 of this series, I provided a “Reader’s Digest version,” if you will, of Sledge’s 420-page book. In Part…
Last week I began a short blog series in which I discuss Tim Sledge’s book, Goodbye Jesus, in which he tells his life story as an Evangelical pastor, and his eventual walking away from the Christian faith, to where he now identifies as a humanist. In last week’s post, I provided a 2,500-word overview of…
Tim Sledge is a former Baptist minister who, for about 40 years, had been a pastor and Christian writer. As the title of his book, suggests, he no longer is a Christian. He now describes himself as a humanist, and in his book, Goodbye Jesus, he essentially gives his life story in which he details…
Over the past month, I really haven’t written anything on this blog. I’ve just been too tired, and quite frankly, too depressed, to write anything. The social and political upheaval that has gripped America these days has just really been tough for me to process. As I briefly mentioned in my 5-Year Anniversary post, I…
This Sunday, July 19th, will mark the 5-year anniversary of my starting Resurrecting Orthodoxy. Over the past 5 years, I’ve written about 200 posts on the Creation/Evolution debate, over 200 posts specifically about Biblical Studies, about 100 on the New Atheist Movement, and a smattering of other topics. I’ve also written extended book reviews of…