Bill Pratt | February 28, 2009
Recently, one of the commenters on our blog alleged that the documents of the New Testament simply repeat common themes, ideas, and facts that were widely circulated in the ancient world. Perhaps you have heard others make this claim, such as the folks who created the Zeitgeist video. One of the most popular arguments is [...]
Bill Pratt | February 28, 2009
Dr. Philip Skell, in a recent article posted on Forbes.com, says “no.” Skell correctly separates the study of origin science from experimental sciences in the world of biology. These are two distinct realms which Darwinists have become completely blind to. Skell writes that Darwinists “overstate both the evidence for Darwin’s theory of historical biology and [...]
Bill Pratt | February 27, 2009
Continuing from part 6, we will examine more evidence for the trustworthiness of the NT writers. A fourth question about the NT writers’ integrity: are any of the historical facts they mention corroborated by other sources? Here the NT writers really shine. During the first and second centuries, there were many historians who were writing books [...]
Bill Pratt | February 26, 2009
From part 5, we are still examining whether the eyewitnesses who wrote the books of the NT are trustworthy. Previously we noted that the eyewitnesses recorded embarrassing details about Jesus’ disciples. We concluded that embarrassing details would not be included in a fictional work meant to emphasize the greatness of the first followers of Jesus. But [...]
Bill Pratt | February 25, 2009
I have been hearing for years about the movie, Inherit the Wind, a documentary-drama which is supposed to portray the events of the Scopes “Monkey” trial that took place in 1925. Well, I finally was able to see it a few nights ago. It was actually fairly entertaining, considering the subject matter, but, alas, it was [...]
Bill Pratt | February 24, 2009
Continuing from part 4, we will now ask further questions of the writers of the New Testament (NT ) documents. Question 2: Do we have multiple witnesses or just one? The more witnesses, the better, because one person could make a mistake, but if several people are saying the same thing, it’s more convincing. In [...]
Darrell | February 21, 2009
The Book Of Mormon is called “Another Testament of Jesus Christ” by the LDS Church. The Title Page in the Book Of Mormon says specifically… “The Book of Mormon Another Testament of Jesus Christ”. I was reading some material earlier this morning and something about this title hit me hard… the word TESTAMENT. Why do they [...]
Bill Pratt | February 21, 2009
Yes, there are, and C. Michael Patton points out a few on his latest blog post, 14 Examples of Really Bad Apologetics. His conclusion is that the evidence for the resurrection is the most important apologetic argument, and I agree that the evidence for the resurrection is very strong. However, I think there are many [...]
Bill Pratt | February 21, 2009
Based on the previous post, we know that the NT documents were written soon enough after the events of Jesus’ life to prevent anyone claiming that they are largely tainted by myth or legend. This fact was very important to establish, but we are still left with a nagging question. Just because it was written soon [...]
Bill Pratt | February 18, 2009
In the previous post, we started arguing for early dates for several NT books, but we didn’t finish the discussion. So this post picks up where we left off! It is generally agreed upon by scholars that the gospel of Luke was written before the book of Acts. Dr. Luke wrote both of them and [...]
