Introduction to Evidence and Answers
Philosophy of Religion
- Introduction to Evidence and Answers
- What does it mean that the Bible is inspired and inerrant?
- The Miracles of Jesus
- Manuscript Evidence for Superior New Testament Reliability
- Illustration of Bible text manuscript tree and variant readings
- Non-biblical accounts of New Testament events and/or people
- Archaeological Evidence verifying biblical cities
- The writings of Josephus mention many biblical people and places
- When were the gospels written and by whom?
- Evidence of biblical inspiration
- Is the battle of Jericho in Joshua a real historical event?
- Archaeology, the Bible, and Jeroboam son of Nebat
- En Gedi and the accuracy of Scripture
- Archaeology, history, and Paul’s arrest and trial at Jerusalem and Caesarea
- New Testament figures attested in other early historical sources
- The historicity of Acts 12 and the death of Herod Agrippa I
- Was Barabbas a real person or just a literary device?
- Did Barabbas’ insurrection actually happen?
- Can we trust the New Testament as a historical document?
- Wasn’t the New Testament written hundreds of years after Christ?
- Hasn’t the Bible been rewritten so many times it can’t be trusted?
- Has the New Testament been corrupted?
- Has the Old Testament been corrupted?
- Since the NT writers were biased, can we trust what they wrote?
- What is the gospel of Q, and does it mean that the Gospels are false?
- Why isn’t there other evidence of the massacre of the babies?
- Why isn’t there any record of millions of Jews wandering in the desert?
- Do the lost books of the Bible prove that the Bible has been altered?
- Is there non-biblical evidence of a day of darkness at the crucifixion?
- Do references to camels in Genesis prove the Bible is false?
- Papyri, p1 through p76; 200 AD to 700 AD copies
- Letter Uncials; 4th to 10th-century copies
- Numbered Uncials, 046 through 0250; 2nd to 14th-century copies
- Numbered Minuscules, 1 through 1985; 9th to 16th-century copies
- Minuscules, 2 through 399; 9th to 16th-century copies
- Minuscules, 404 through 999; 8th to 16th-century copies
- Minuscules, 1012 through 2768; 9th to 16th-century copies
- Regarding the quotes from the historian Josephus about Jesus
- The writings of Josephus mention many biblical people and places
- 1 Cor. 15:3-4 demonstrates a creed too early for a legend to corrupt
- An analysis of the pre-Pauline creed in 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
- Does Isaiah 53 predict that Jesus would be the Messiah?
- Does Daniel 9:24-27 predict the coming of Jesus?
- Does Micah 5:2 predict that Jesus would be the Messiah?
- Does Zechariah 12:10 predict that Jesus would be the Messiah?
- Is Psalm 22 a Messianic Prophecy?
- Is the Easter Story of Jesus’ Resurrection True?
- Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
- Does the Bible provide extraordinary evidence for Jesus’ resurrection?
- It is improbable that Jesus rose from the dead
- The Christians were mistaken about Jesus’ resurrection
- The New Testament writers conspired together to gain power
- Jesus was a magician who made people hallucinate about His miracles
- Jesus only appeared to have died on the cross – Swoon Theory
- The disciples stole Jesus’ body and faked His resurrection
- There are no non-biblical accounts of the resurrection
- Miracles cannot happen
- Has the tomb of Jesus been found?
- Is there historical evidence of Jesus’ miracles?
- What is the Nazareth Inscription?
- Was Jesus just a myth?
- Did Jesus really die on the cross?
- Is the empty tomb of Jesus historical?
- Did Jesus rise from the dead? An outline
- Did Jesus rise from the dead?
- Was the resurrection story of Jesus borrowed from pagan mythology?
- Didn’t Jesus simply rise in a non-physical, spirit form?
- If Jesus is God in flesh, why did He not inherit original sin?
- Can’t all of Jesus’ miracles be explained naturally?
- Are the New Testament themes found in the Old Testament?
- Apollonius of Tyana also did miracles and rose. What about him?
- Doesn’t Mithra prove that Christians borrowed from this myth?
- Why believe in Christianity over all other religions?
- If God is all-powerful and loving, why is there suffering in the world?
- A loving God would never send anyone to hell
- Is there physical evidence that God is real?
- It is intolerant to say that Christianity is the only true religion
- Why did animals have to die for the sins of Adam and Eve and others?
- Why would God have to die to save people from Himself?
- If God is not the author of confusion, what about the Tower of Babel?
- If babies go to heaven when they die, why is abortion wrong?
- How do we know Christianity is true and we are not deceived?
Philosophy of Religion