Category Archives: Evidences

“The Birth & Death of Biblical Minimalism | Biblical Archaeology Review”

From Biblical Archaeology Review: “Biblical minimalism,” as it is known, has gone through a number of permutations in the recent past. Its modern career began about 30 years ago…. Since then it has been part of the ongoing debate regarding the extent to which historical data are embedded in the Hebrew Bible. In the mid-1980s …

May 8, 2011 – 6:37 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Comments (2)

“Stand to Reason Blog: “Discovered” Codices Likely Frauds”

Update on this news item: “This particular bronze tablet is, therefore, a modern forgery, produced in Jordan within the last fifty years. I would stake my career on it.” [From Stand to Reason Blog: "Discovered" Codices Likely Frauds]

April 5, 2011 – 7:49 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Comments Off

Earliest Christian Documents Discovered?

This just in by email from a friend: from BBC News – Jordan battles to regain ‘priceless’ Christian relics: A group of 70 or so “books”, each with between five and 15 lead leaves bound by lead rings, was apparently discovered in a remote arid valley in northern Jordan somewhere between 2005 and 2007…. They …

March 29, 2011 – 10:56 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Comments (6)

“No Argument For God” by John Wilkinson

Book Review John Wilkinson believes strongly in reason and in argument in the pursuit of spiritual truth. He employs both, at length, to deny the usefulness of reason and argument in the pursuit of spiritual truth. His book is titled No Argument for God: Going Beyond Reason in Conversations About Faith, and its central thesis goes …

March 11, 2011 – 9:50 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, Thinking Christianly | Tagged | Comments (70)

A Divine Hiddenness Argument for Christianity

Take this post as a conversation-starter, please. I think there may be something to it, but it’s just a first stab at it. The Divine Hiddenness Argument Against Christianity There is an argument against Christianity based on God’s “hiddenness:” that if God existed and wanted people to believe in him, he would make himself known …

February 18, 2011 – 8:23 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Tagged | Comments (27)

New in 2010: Hard-Core Christianity

This entry is part 1 of 14 in the series New in 2010

With a word of thanks to all who responded, I now begin the delightful duty of featuring several new Christian blogs from 2010. I’m starting with one that was submitted by a third party, Holly Ordway. I figured if a blog is good enough for someone else to note (especially Holly), it must be high …

January 5, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, Origins and Science, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Comments (3)

Mike Licona’s Historiographical Approach to the Resurrection

The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach There’s considerable buzz going on about this new book from Mike Licona. I took a look through the table of contents on Amazon and decided to add my voice to it—and to order a copy of the book, which I’ve just done. Mike is a scholar and …

November 4, 2010 – 8:07 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences | Tagged | Comments (2)

Set Forth Your Case: EPS Apologetics Conference

Check out this conversation on the upcoming Evangelical Philosophical Society Apologetics Conference, to be held in Atlanta, November 18-20. I’ll be there, and I strongly urge you to come. Registration is very inexpensive, and the speaker lineup is very impressive. Hope to see you there! Hat Tip for the video: Confident Christianity

October 29, 2010 – 12:33 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, Postmodernism/ Relativism, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Comments Off

The Two Most Overlooked Apologetics Verses In the Bible

Hardly anybody ever mentions it, but two of the most well-known verses in the Old Testament have significant apologetic implications, lending support to the Bible’s supernatural origins. One of them I’m sure will be a surprise to many readers here; the other might also. I will preview the argument before telling you which verses they …

May 23, 2010 – 5:10 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (9)