Bill Pratt | June 13, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 1 of this series, we looked at a blog post written by Timothy McGrew where he presents external and internal evidence for the authorship of the fourth Gospel. Part 1 summarized the external evidence, and part 2 will summarize the internal evidence. McGrew starts off the presentation of the internal [...]
Bill Pratt | June 11, 2012
Post Author: Bill Pratt There is much hay made in skeptical circles of the fact that none of the four Gospels were signed by an author, that if we reconstruct the original texts from the copies we have, there are no sentences in the texts that explicitly say something like, “This Gospel was written by John, son of [...]
Bill Pratt | August 26, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most compelling apologetic arguments for the truth of the resurrection of Jesus is the fact that most of his closest followers were martyred for their beliefs. Since these followers would have had first-hand knowledge of whether he actually did come back from the dead, their willingness to be [...]
Bill Pratt | June 29, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt Archaeologists reported on June 22, 2010 that they found images of the apostles Andrew and John that date to the 4th century. Here is an excerpt from the article at CNN.com. The oldest known image of the apostles Andrew and John have been discovered in catacombs under the city of Rome, [...]
Bill Pratt | January 11, 2010
Post Author: Bill Pratt In a sense, yes, but in another sense, no. Evangelicals often point out that all sins will send you to hell, that God demands moral perfection, so whether you steal a stick of chewing gum or murder your spouse, both sins will equally damn you. This is really just a way [...]
Bill Pratt | February 21, 2009
Post Author: Bill Pratt 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 [...]
