Over the years I have come across Christians who believe that it doesn’t matter whether we know anything about the Bible and defending it. “Just have faith” some would say. But, faith in what? If we are claiming to be followers of Christ how are we going to follow someone we don’t know anything about? And if… Continue Reading
Category Archives: A Case for the Bible
Case-Making 101: What are those other “gospels” and why aren’t they in the Bible?
Have you ever heard someone talk about the missing books of the Bible? There have been numerous documentaries and some movies based on these “missing” books, but do they have any credibility? Let’s take a look at the reasons for rejecting them as part of the Christian Bible: There are two basic categories: The Apocrypha… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: How does finding truth relate to Bible study?
How do we distinguish truth from hearsay or opinion? You know, “THEY SAY…” is how most people preference hearsay and this usually means they don’t have any evidence for the claim they are making. How many of us defer to “THEY” when we don’t want to take time to fact check for ourselves? In today’s… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: Does the Old Testament Law Apply To Us Today?
Last post we looked at the importance of the connection between the Old and New Testaments, especially with God’s Covenant Promise that unfolds from Genesis throughout the Old Testament and culminates in the person and ministry of Jesus. Part of the unfolding of the Covenant comes specifically in the detailed Law given to Moses found… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: Does the Old Testament really connect to the New Testament?
I have often heard skeptics of the Christian Bible say that the Old and New Testaments have no connection and that the God of the Old Testament is not the same as the God of the New Testament. Most skeptics have never really studied the Bible – I know cause I was one of them.… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: Does prophecy fulfillment support the reliability of the Bible?
Our evidence collection over the past few posts has been based on the question that many skeptics have posed: How do we know the Bible is the Word of God? In those posts we have gone over some of the available evidence that falls into the following categories: Physical Evidence: This includes historical and literary… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: Does Archeology Support the Bible?
When I began to investigate the Bible I had no idea that Archeology was a relatively new science that did not take root until the nineteenth century A.D. (prior to that time archeology was mainly done by grave robbers). I was astonished to learn how these relatively recent discoveries were consistently supporting Biblical accounts. Could… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: Are there multiple eyewitnesses for the events recorded in the Bible?
Eyewitness Accounts: Many people think the Bible is just like other “holy books,” giving good advice and telling allegorical and maybe mythological stories. However, upon close examination we find that the Bible is mainly an historical narrative giving facts about people, places, events and times. It contains one mega-theme that connects its 66 books, written… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: How do we know what we have in our Bibles today is the same as the originals?
Last week we looked at the evidence for the reliability of the New Testament in terms of the early Church’s canonization. We also looked at reasons why Christians reject the Apocrypha and gnostic gospels with an emphasis on the dating of those writings. With that in mind it is important to look at what scholars consider… Continue Reading
Case-Making 101: A Case for the Bible – Have you ever wondered how we know that the New Testament is reliable?
During my skeptical years I bought into the misconception that the books of the Bible were decided, and even written, by a certain group of men hundreds of years after the fact, and because of that we could not trust it. But that is far from the truth and the onus is on us to… Continue Reading