In 2012, during a debate with Dr. Bart Ehrman, Dr. Daniel Wallace proclaimed that there had been a discovery of a 1st century fragment of the Gospel attributed to Mark. Textual critics have been waiting for over 5 years to… Read More ›
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Dr. Bart Ehrman on the Qur’an in 2018
Br. Sabbagh recently had the opportunity to sit with Dr. Ehrman, have a meal and a quick interview, in this brief clip he speaks on the Qur’an and as to why he cannot accept Christianity and the New Testament. YouTube… Read More ›
Debate today: Are the Gospels reliable?
Spoiler: no.
A Muslim’s Response to Mythicists
A Guest Article by Andrew Livingston Christ mythicism is the notion that there never even was such a person as Jesus of Nazareth. The whole thing, right down to the very existence of the man himself, was pure myth from… Read More ›
Variants Don’t Affect Beliefs Except When They Do
I’ve previously posted on the issue of how just one letter can create a theological conundrum in the New Testament. On Christmas Day Dr. James White of Alpha and Omega Ministries also posted a variant that affects the beliefs of… Read More ›
Sam Shamoun’s inconsistency and double standards
Readers will know all about the trenchant criticism leveled at Muslims when we cite respected mainstream Bible scholars like Professor Bart Ehrman. Christian polemicist Sam Shamoun and others accuse us of hypocrisy and double standards. But lo and behold Sam… Read More ›
Eyewitnesses and the Gospels
QUESTION One of the major points of your work (if I understand correctly) is that the contents of the New Testament are at a vast remove in time, place, and source from any eyewitness account of Jesus’ life. But when… Read More ›
Richard Bauckham: Sermon on the Mount is NOT Historical
For folks to note, Prof. Richard Bauckham believes the Sermon on the Mount is not historical. Refreshing to know and obviously important for Christians who lean on him for their “early high Christology” arguments. [There was a Christian apologist who… Read More ›
Problems with Some Bible Translations, including the King James
Professor Bart Ehrman has just posted this fascinating article on The Bart Ehrman Blog In my Introduction to the New Testament undergraduate class this semester, I have told the students that they can use most any Bible translation they want,… Read More ›
Did a Former Pfander Ministries Member Admit There Are Bible Contradictions?
Gospel contradictions? A former student of Jay Smith, Lizzie Schofield of DCCI Ministries, seems to imply there are some contradictions between the Gospels. She seems to believe the Gospels largely agree and agree on the big things but there are… Read More ›
Evidence that Jesus didn’t teach the same gospel that Paul later taught
Interesting. Bart = Professor Bart Ehrman, American NT scholar.
Professor Bart Ehrman – Bible Contradictions
Some well known contradictions and discrepancies in the Bible
Jesus, the Law, and a “New” Covenant
‘Jesus of Nazareth was a Torah-observant Jewish teacher whose followers, after his death, came to adopt a variety of attitudes toward the Law of Moses. Some of them insisted on strict observance; others argued that only parts of the Law… Read More ›
Jesus the messiah and Isaiah 53, Psalm 22
Christians point ‘to passages in the Bible that talked about one who suffered and was then vindicated, passages such as Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22. Jews, though, had a ready response: these passages are not talking about the messiah. And you… Read More ›
Three popular proofs that Jesus was God
Jesus is God because he did amazing miracles! Jesus is God because he forgave sins! Jesus is God because people bowed down and worshiped him!
Was Jesus Yahweh?
Bart Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar, currently the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Leading evangelical scholar admits Qur’an is better preserved than New Testament
This is very interesting. Craig L. Blomberg is an American New Testament scholar at the evangelical Denver Seminary in Colorado and he is explicitly motivated in his work as a conservative Evangelical to defend the inerrancy of the Bible (if… Read More ›
Muslim Helps James White to Understand Bart Ehrman’s Offense
Yahya Snow writes “Aren’t I a helpful fella? James White was struggling to understand why Bart Ehrman would consider him offensive and an unpleasant guy. Well here’s the research. There’s more on this on this blog post: http://thefactsaboutislam.blogspot.co… “
The problems with knowing what Jesus actually said
A good discussion between Ijaz and Bart Ehrman
How the Bible has changed over the past 2,000 years
Sam Shamoun admits the Bible has been changed and is worried…
The Crucifixion and the Qur’an
The Quran makes a very interesting claim: ‘God has sealed them [the Jews] in their disbelief, so they believe only a little – and because they disbelieved and uttered a terrible slander against Mary, and said, ‘We have killed the… Read More ›
Jesus, the Law, and a “New” Covenant (Professor Bart D. Ehrman)
Fascinating new lecture by Professor Bart D. Ehrman. Professor Bart Ehrman was the Keynote speaker at the Department of Near Eastern Studies presented a Mendenhall Symposium at the University of Michigan – Law, Society, and Religion on October 6, 2016,… Read More ›
Between Ehrman and Error
Recently on this blog I posted a video on the tenacity of the proposed ausgangstext which filled the lacuna of John 20:28. The vast majority of Muslims (expectedly) were enthusiastic about discussing the tenacity of Doubting Thomas’ alleged statement. The… Read More ›
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