My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
Massacre of the innocents
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…
The day of Jesus’ death
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…
Peter’s Denial Pt.2
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…
Are Paul’s Conversion Accounts Contradictory?
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…
Things that go bump in the night
An outline of this series can be found here. Things go bump in the night As a child, you may have woken up in the middle of the night with darkness…
Probabilities of existence and our flawed brains
Below is part of a dialogue I have had with an atheist, so I am putting you in the middle of a conversation. I apologize for there not being the…
The hour of Jesus’ death
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…
The guards at the tomb would not have spread a rumor, because it would incur severe punishment.
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…
The Death of Judas
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…
Was Jesus’ body thrown in a mass grave?
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…
