And the Skeptics Are Silent
It’s been a month. I’m still waiting for an answer. Who wrote Jesus’ character, and how? I said before, they treat Jesus as such an easy character to write, any old story-scrambler could come up with him. That’s my term for it, not theirs, naturally. As I argue in...
Does Too Good to be False Make the Muslims’ Mistake, ‘It’s Perfect, So It Must Be From God’?
Most people responding to Too Good to be False so far have been Christians telling the surprise and delight they’ve experienced in it by seeing Jesus in a new light. There’s more to it than that, though, in Part 2, where I build on this fresh view of Jesus,...
Why I’m Not Answering Non-Serious Objections to Too Good to be False
I’ve been looking forward to serious skeptical answers to Too Good to be False. Unfortunately after a couple responses, especially a recent one on YouTube by “Paulogia,” I’m still looking forward to it. This wasn’t one of them. There’s an expectation that an author will answer challenges such as...
Skeptics, Explain This, Please: Who Wrote Jesus’ Character, and How?
Who wrote Jesus’ character into the Gospels? How’d they do it? Skeptics treat this as if it were easy, and if that question had an easy answer. They’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I say this by way of answering Bob Seidensticker’s third post of four....
Marcus Borg’s Magical Theory of the Gospels
Marcus Borg put out an incredible amount of writing, so I may have missed it, but I’ve studied the books that seem most likely to be relevant. Based on that reading, I would suggest that Borg (1942-2015), one of our generation’s more influential New Testament scholars, had something like...
Episode 9: Why Did They Write the Gospels?
Why did the gospel authors write the gospels? For believers the answer might be a question: “Why even ask? Isn’t it obvious?” That answer isn’t universal, though. Today on the Thinking Christian podcast we launch a new series on Jesus through the gospels, starting with Luke’s answer to that...
To Follow Jesus in Greater Love, Confidence, and Community
Have I shared the heart behind this book here yet? My prayers for it follow the three main parts of the book, plus two important additional sections near the end....
A Case Against Miracles, or Unreasonable Skeptical Demands?
I’m reading Loftus’s Case Against Miracles. One author in it, David Corner, argues in favor of Hume’s take on miracles, which (in the briefest language) is that no miracle can be known to have occurred. Corner keeps saying that the person who believes in miracles must do this and...
Jesus Is Too Good To Be False
Groundbreaking “Lewis-esque” article now available again! Five years ago I published an article at Touchstone magazine that I titled “Too Good to be False,” and which they titled, “The Gospel Truth of Jesus.” Leading New Testament documents scholar Daniel Wallace paid me the compliment of calling it “Lewis-esque.” For quite a long time Touchstone...
