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Biblical scholarship
Christian mistranslation of key NT word
This is most interesting. Below is a pic of a book I am currently reading by prominent New Testament scholar Dale B. Martin, a Professor at Yale University. In the paragraph below he candidly admits to three fascinating (one of… Read More ›
Dialogue Today: Dr. Shabir Ally and Mr. Abdu Murray
This event begins at 7 PM EST (Toronto, NY, Atlanta), which will be at 12 AM GMT tonight for those in the UK. The live-streaming link can be found below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KC8rQPxZiA&feature=youtu.be Thanks to Mr. Nick Hill of Toronto for providing… Read More ›
Jesus, the Law, and a “New” Covenant
A superb educational lecture by a top New Testament scholar. It mentions many things most Christians do not know about the real historical Jesus and the early church.
Have you read this new book? A refreshing take on biblical hermeneutics today by a top Yale scholar. Much food for thought.
He argues for an anti-foundationalist postmodern hermeneutic but still professes belief in the orthodox Christological creeds. He wants to have his cake and eat it too. But he’s an astute NT scholar & the book contains many insightful comments on… Read More ›
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 ›
The Changes to the First Words in the New Testament
Last month I published a paper on how the very first words in the New Testament evolved over time. It was entitled, “The Inscriptio of the Gospel Attributed to Matthew.” Today we have produced a 2 minute video that simplifies… Read More ›
The Trinity Doctrine Did Not Exist Until the Late Fourth Century
This is a fact of history, often obscured, unfortunately, by apologists. 28th November 2017 by KERMIT ZARLEY Nearly all Christians are Trinitarians because that is what their churches teach them. It was the same with me. What is the doctrine of… Read More ›
Recommended reading: Lost Christianities
The early Christian Church was a chaos of contending beliefs. Some groups of Christians claimed that there was not one God but two or twelve or thirty. Some believed that the world had not been created by God but by… Read More ›
The Inscriptio of the Gospel Attributed to Matthew
For many Christians the authorial identity behind the first Gospel (as per the Augustinian order), commonly attributed to Matthew usually appears to be a matter of little or no concern. This is in part due to the inscriptio of the… Read More ›
Archbishop of Canterbury: ‘Jesus did not claim to be God’
Michael Ramsey (1904 – 1988) was the 100th Archbishop of Canterbury. He was appointed on 31 May 1961 and held the office until 1974, having previously been the Bishop of Durham and the Archbishop of York. He was known as… Read More ›
Speakers’ Corner: CruciFiction & Resurrection – Paul Williams VS Bob The Builder
I invited Bob to discuss the death and resurrection of Jesus in the New Testament. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1sGwO1UiQQ&t=1092s
A Former Nun On Paul And The Synoptics
Paul and the Synoptics had never regarded Jesus as God; the very idea would have horrified Paul who, before his conversion, had been an exceptionally punctilious Pharisee. They all used the term ‘Son of God’ in the conventional Jewish sense:… Read More ›
John and the Synoptics
In this video, Professor Mark Goodacre helps us understand John’s use of the Synoptics. Mark Goodacre is a New Testament scholar and Professor at Duke University. He has written extensively on the Synoptic Problem; that is, the origins of the… Read More ›
Books bought/not bought from Foyles in London today
In the end I didn’t buy this book as my Arabic is not good enough to follow the discussion, but it is a new scholarly work that a must read for those who can. As an undergraduate studying the Bible… 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 ›
Evangelical scholar Mike Licona’s vain boasting about believing in gospel miracles which he dismisses as mere ‘special effects’ on at least one occasion.
Christian apologist and NT scholar Mike Licona likes to think of himself as a traditional orthodox Christian scholar as we can see in his tweet just published. He boasts that he is unashamedly in the miraculous camp. But this is… Read More ›
Is the Trinity Consistent with the Old Testament – Yusuf Ismail and Jonathan Debate
A friendly debate between Muslim Yusuf Ismail and Trinitarian Jon McLatchie hosted by Rudolph Boshoff. This debate features discussions on the concept of agency, the identity of the angel of the Lord and the Son of Man title amongst other… Read More ›
The Son of Mary
Muslims are familiar with the tittle “son of Mary” for Jesus but it’s interesting to note that Jesus was being called the “son of Mary” by his contemporaries in a strand of tradition before the earliest canonical gospel was written…. Read More ›
“scholarship since the 19th century…Trinitarianism can only be found in the NT if the reader…puts it there.”
Isaac Newton was a fierce critic of the Trinitarian corruption of Christianity: A review by A.N. Wilson John Calvin believed that human nature was a ‘permanent factory of idols’; the mind conceived them, and the hand gave them birth. Isaac… Read More ›
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