“He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!’ And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two …
Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘You shall worship (proskyneō) the Lord your God and serve Him only.’” Luke 4:8 Then Jesus said to him, “Go, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship (proskyneō) the Lord your God and serve Him only.’” Matthew 4:10 The idea that there is one God and that He …
Could God sin? If God has the potential to sin, then he would not be essentially or necessarily good. But God is necessarily or essentially good. He cannot be otherwise. This means that it is impossible for God to commit acts of evil and therefore God cannot even be tempted to do wrong just as …
A couple of weeks ago we looked at who wrote the Gospel of Mark, and before that we looked at who wrote Matthew’s Gospel. Now we will take up Luke’s Gospel. Who wrote Luke? Was the person in a position to record what he recorded? Can we know anything about this author? Did this person …
Critics today almost take it for granted that the gospels were not written by the people we think they were; that the names on each gospel were added at a much later date. They further surmise that whoever wrote these books was not relying on any kind of eyewitness testimony for their material. A few …
If the accounts of Jesus’ life that we have were written by eyewitnesses, that would be considered good evidence for the reliability of their contents. Most significantly, those portions that carry the most weight both historically and doctrinally in Christian faith–the death, deity and resurrection of Jesus. Let’s turn our attention to Matthew’s Gospel and …
If Jesus is God, then would he be in a good position to know whether the Old Testament is reliable in any way. It seems that that would be a safe assumption to make. The fact is that when you read the gospels, you will see that Jesus has a very high view regarding the …
When considering whether a document has within it eyewitness testimony, probably the first question that should be asked is: Does the writer of said document claimed to be an eyewitness or claims to get information from eyewitnesses? I think we have this in the New Testament. When taking the New Testament as a whole, both …
All of the New Testament Documents were written before 100 AD In letters written between 95-110 AD, three prominent church fathers [Clement, Ignatius, and Polycarp] quoted passages from 25 of the 27 New Testament books.1 Only the brief books of Jude and 2 John were not referenced, but they certainly had to have been written (Jude, …
