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Christians after Jesus gradually evolved a number of stories supporting the idea that he was the son of David in the absence of any supporting evidence. It is supposition gradually solidified in the re-telling. This also explains why the genealogies contradict each other and why the virgin birth stories co-exist with the son of David stories.
(Image Credit: iStock/HHakim) Recently, I was privileged to be invited to participate in a discussion with a group of Christians.…
[Photo Credit: iStock/g-stockstudio] The afterword of my recent book, Evidence Considered: A Response to Evidence for God contained the following. I…
This is an excerpt from Evidence Considered: A Response to Evidence for God. Evidence for God is a book edited by William Dembski and Michael Licona that presents fifty arguments for faith from the Bible, history, philosophy, and science. In this excerpt, I respond to the twenty-seventh chapter by Richard Spencer entitled: “Intelligent, Optimal, and Divine Design.” This is one of the chapters in the section of the book on the question of Jesus.
My previous post began an attempt to look at the historicity of the resurrection, or at least to weigh the…
iStock/LindaJohnsonbaugh I’ve looked at the credibility of the Bible (here, here and here), and recently talked about Paul’s christology. In the…
Answer these three yes/no questions: Do extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? Are your religious claims extraordinary? Is it possible that…
Many people are inspired to faith by the wonder of nature, whether it be cosmology, biology, geology or any other discipline. In this essay I want to give an overview of the problems that I see with that, and, in fact, saw with it even when I used to be a Christian.
I’ve avoided this topic for a while for a number of reasons. Mostly, I wanted to be clear that I…
