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Erudite Elucidators?: John Dominic Crossan is the co-founder and former co-chair of “The Jesus Seminar.” He makes his obligatory appearance in the documentary in order to make one statement: “If the bones of Jesus were to be found in an ossuary in Jerusalem tomorrow. Without doubt, let’s say they are definitely agreed to be the…

In this segment we will consider instances in which people were healed of some malady and were told to go to people who would have known of their malady so that they may see that they had been miraculously healed. Legion: the Gadarene DemoniacIn Mark chapter 5 (and Luke 8:27-39 and Matthew 8:28-34) Jesus had…

The question as to how many early ancient texts there are which refer to Jesus is often proposed. So, how many early references are there? The logical question is: how many have been found and or how many do we know about? In other words, we do not know how many references there are since…

According to The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI, “Leading Egyptian Daily ‘Al-Ahram’ Reports: Coins from Era of Biblical Joseph Found in Egypt,” September 24, 2009, No. 2561): _the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram [September 22, 2009], by Wajih Al-Saqqar, archeologists have discovered ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the Biblical Joseph_ Its importance…

A friend and I were asked, “Show me where Jesus said ‘I am God.’” We pointed the inquirer to John 8:58 where Jesus states “before Abraham was I AM.” The response was “he did not say ‘I am God.’” Of course, that is precisely what Jesus was saying and the text makes it clear that…

This parsed post will consider, dissect and respond to the documentary “The Lost Tomb of Jesus.” Hereinafter DSC denotes “The Discovery Channel.” This parsed essay is divided into the following segments: Part 1: Introduction and Utterly Absolute Unquestionable Certainty Part 2: Sensationalistic Claims – The Hype is Ripe Part 3: Let the Debate Begin…Without Us…

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Babylon’s Raze Dan Barker and many New Atheist attempt to demonstrate that the Bible is an immoral work from which we subjectively glean what scant good morals are found within it, they claim that we pick and choose. Dan Barker makes reference to Psalm 137 but quotes only the text which states, “Happy the one…

Nice guy extraordinaire and more than capable apologist Anthony Horvath is once again opening the gates of the online apologetics courses he offers at Athanatos. He has been kind enough to include me as an instructor this time around. The course descriptions and other info is found here. Some courses are free and the others…

On July 14, 2008 AD the homepage of Sam Harris’ website made one of the funnies statements you will ever read. The homepage was describing a project to transfer Steve Wells’ “Skeptic’s Annotated Bible Qur’an, and Book of Mormon” to the Reason Project. It is stated, Steve spent the better part of a decade annotating…