There is an objection that Jesus’ body was thrown into a mass grave and either became unrecognizable because of exposure or could not be found due to there being many bodies. It is unlikely that crucified victims were left out…
While they were going, behold, some of the guard went into the city and told the chief priests all that had taken place. And when they had assembled with the elders and taken counsel, they gave a sufficient sum of…
This is a follow up to this post Nothing Comes from nothing I realized this after I wrote this. Paul was well aware of the culture and ideas of his day. He was writing to a Roman audience who would…
Nothing produces nothing. . . Yes, with nothing, there is no matter, motive, energy, different dimension for nothing to work with to become something. But there is something . . . Even scientists who say that something can come from…
Passages of Conversion of Paul said to be in conflict There are some who look at the accounts of Paul’s conversion in Acts and after a casual reading of the accounts assume that they are in conflict with each…
Objection that there are no records of a massacre of infants by Herod An objection to the historical accuracy of Matthew’s account of Jesus’s birth is that there are no historical records outside the Bible of Herod killing infant sons…
What hour did Jesus die? Mark and John seem to give two different hours for the death of Jesus. “And it was the third hour when they crucified him.” (Mark 15:25) “Now it was the day of Preparation of the…
What day was it? The question arises, did Jesus eat the Passover meal and as a consequence what day of the Passover week did Jesus die? The Synoptic Gospels speak of Jesus eating the Passover with his disciples on…
The passages describing Judas’s death in Matthew and Acts are cited as an example of where two accounts in the Bible are incompatible with each other. Let’s look at these passages. [3] Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that…
In the previous article (the rooster crow) we described the rooster crow that accompanied Peter’s denial. In this article, we will discuss the differences between the different Gospel accounts of the events surrounding Peter’s three denials. Below is a comparison…
