- Atheism
…k room and pressured into saying prayers and talking about how great we thought Jesus was. We didn't go back after that. Over the years my friend and I didn't stay i…
- Biblical Literalism and Inerrancy
…ry animal (6:19) and seven pairs of the clean ones (7:2). Matthew and Luke give Jesus two different grandfathers and two incompatible genealogies, one through Solomo…
- Biblical Morality
…region, twice. has counted the rest in . The New Testament does not repeal it. Jesus says not one jot of the law will pass (Matthew 5:18), and talks of more than an…
- Deism
…ad and disapproves of shellfish. The gap between "a cause of the universe" and "Jesus" is never argued across; it is stepped over. in its entirety is an attempt to m…
- Divine Hiddenness
…ed behind a pillar of fire and built a golden calf; the disciples saw the risen Jesus and "some doubted" (Matthew 28:17). The Bible's own god was not hidden at all.…
- Mormonism
…an now read. Mormons are, on the whole, admirable neighbours, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a corporation with a hundred-billion-dollar inve…
- Near-Death Experiences
…f Yamraj and clerical errors in the book of the dead; Christian reports feature Jesus; children's reports feature living teachers and pets. People see the afterlife…
- Argument from Fulfilled Prophecy
…Peter Stoner's calculation, 1958). Therefore the Bible is divinely inspired and Jesus is the Messiah. The Islamic version cites the Qur'an's prediction of a Roman vi…
- Argument from Prophetic Character
…Each religion refutes the other's version. The Christian runs this argument for Jesus and rejects it for Muhammad; the Muslim does the reverse; each is right about t…
- Argument from Undesigned Coincidences
…s in another, where neither author seems to have the other in view. In John 6:5 Jesus asks Philip where to buy bread; Luke 9:10 locates the feeding near Bethsaida; J…
- Criterion of Embarrassment Argument
…first witnesses to the empty tomb, when a woman's testimony counted for little; Jesus baptised by John, implying John's seniority; the disciples' cowardice and Peter…
- Eyewitness Testimony Argument
…by , ( The Case for Christ , 1998), and, in scholarly form, Richard Bauckham ( Jesus and the Eyewitnesses , 2006): The gospels are, or rest directly on, eyewitness…
- Historical evidence of the Resurrection of Jesus
Form The "minimal facts" argument ( , ; used by ): Jesus died by crucifixion. His tomb was found empty. His disciples sincerely believed…
- Historical Reliability of the New Testament
…tainly not eyewitnesses. Paul's letters are earlier (50s AD) but Paul never met Jesus and says almost nothing about his life. Manuscript count is irrelevant to truth…
- Religious Apologetics
…c, or whether it cares who you sleep with. The gap between "a first cause" and "Jesus", or "Muhammad", is bridged by assertion. This is why the honest terminus of th…
- Religious Experience
…who were seeking them, in settings designed to produce them. Hindus do not meet Jesus unprompted; evangelicals do not meet Ganesh. A real external object would not c…
- Bart Ehrman
…agnostic atheist through the study of the texts. His popular books ( Misquoting Jesus , 2005; Jesus, Interrupted , 2009; How Jesus Became God , 2014) are the cleares…
- Michael Licona
…ament scholar and apologist, co-author with of The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus (2004) and author of The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approac…
- Muhammad
…d more later, through the same kind of transmission that I decline to trust for Jesus. He appears here as the founder whose claims are assessed under . Wikipedia: Al…
- Reza Aslan
…1972), Iranian-American writer on religion, author of Zealot on the historical Jesus. A liberal believer who argues that religion is about identity rather than prop…
- Richard Carrier
…of antiquity and the most rigorous modern proponent of mythicism, the view that Jesus began as a celestial being and was historicised later. On the Historicity of Je…
- Bart D. Ehrman
…at the University of North Carolina, and home of his weekly podcast Misquoting Jesus , co-hosted with Megan Lewis. Episodes take one question at a time: who wrote t…
- Recomended YouTube Channels
…m essays on apologetics, deconversion and why belief persists. - the Misquoting Jesus podcast; mainstream New Testament scholarship from its best-known explainer. Sc…
- World View
…e best candidate for certainty while remaining wary of it. Whether a historical Jesus existed ( ). I think he probably did, with the field, and would not be greatly…