By: Jason|07 March, 2013|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: Michael J. Kruger . New Testament canon
Michael J. Kruger (President and Professor of New Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina) has began a series to help believers better understand their New Testament and hopefully correct a pattern he has witnessed in recent times: Almost every couple of years it happens. Usually it occurs around Christmas or Easter. And it is typically associated with…
Read more »By: Rodney|16 November, 2012|Categories: Creation & Evolution . intelligent design . Thinking Matters Tauranga|Tags: Apologetics . Christianity . Creation . Evangelism . evolution . existence of God . intelligent design . new atheism
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Intelligent Design scholar Dr. Thomas Woodward (Wikipedia) will be visiting Tauranga for a few days in the second week of December 2012. Qualifications Dr. Woodward is Research Professor at Trinity College of Florida in Tampa Bay, where he has taught for 23 years. He has spoken on the topic of evolution, Intelligent Design and the existence of God at over…
Read more »By: Jason|30 May, 2012|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: New Testament manuscripts . reliability of the NT
Dan Wallace (professor of NT Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary): “NT scholars face an embarrassment of riches compared to the data the classical Greek and Latin scholars have to contend with. The average classical author’s literary remains number no more than twenty copies. We have more than 1,000 times the manuscript data for the NT than we do for the…
Read more »By: Rodney|23 April, 2012|Categories: Apologetics . Biblical Criticism . Events . Thinking Matters Tauranga . Video
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Next week Thinking Matters Tauranga is starting a new series titled Is the Bible Reliable? Building the Historic Case. Is the Bible a book of myths and fairy tales, or is it a book of history and truth? This DVD series provides a thorough overview of major archaeological and historical discoveries that demonstrate the veracity and accuracy of the Bible. This…
Read more »By: Jason|28 September, 2011|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: Biblical manuscripts . Craig A. Evans . Dead Sea Scrolls . Old Testament . textual criticism
In a joint project with the Israel Museum, Google have put the Dead Sea Scrolls online for the first time. Considered one of the most significant archaeological finds of the 20th century, the Dead Sea Scrolls date from around 250 BC to 68 AD and comprise some 800 documents in many tens of thousands of fragments. The ancient scrolls were first…
Read more »By: Jason|02 August, 2011|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: gospel accounts . new testament . reliability of the NT . Tim McGrew
Professor Tim McGrew shows how incidental details in the gospel accounts confirm the reliability of the New Testament.
Read more »By: Jason|23 March, 2011|Categories: Science & History|Tags: birth of science . Conflict Thesis . Middle Ages . science
The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution (Regnery Publishing, 2011) is a new book by physicist and historian of science James Hannam that challenges the myth that the Middles Ages were a time of ignorance and superstition. He recently talked to The Daily Caller about the book:
Read more »By: Matt|04 October, 2010|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Ethics . Theology|Tags: Capital Punishment . Death Penalty . Mosaic Law . Old Testament
In a three-part series Matt looks at the perplexing question of capital punishment in the Mosaic Law. In Part II Matt looks at the claim of sceptics that the Old Testament supports stoning women who engage in pre-marital sex.
Read more »By: Matt|17 September, 2010|Categories: Biblical Criticism . Ethics . Theology|Tags: Capital Punishment . Death Penalty . Mosaic Law . Old Testament
In a three-part series Matt looks at the perplexing question of capital punishment in the Mosaic Law. In Part I Matt challenges an excessively literal reading of penal sanctions in the Old Testament.
Read more »By: Jason|23 February, 2010|Categories: Biblical Criticism|Tags: Bible . Creation . evolution . Genesis . history . literalism . myth . N.T. Wright . Video
How should we read the first few chapters of Genesis? Myth, history, or something else? Some thoughts on a video by N.T. Wright, the Bishop of Durham and prominent Biblical scholar.
Read more »By: Stuart|04 December, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: Chiristianity . Conflict Thesis . science
W. R. Miller has complied a fine list of quotes and resources to emphasize the point that many of the greatest scientists in history were Christians or had Biblical presuppositions. Also that for most of these, their faith was the driving force behind their discoveries, and true self-sustaining modern science (not just engineering, logic or mathematics) was born within a Christian society.
Read more »By: Stuart|02 December, 2009|Categories: Science & History . Websites|Tags: Columbus . Conflict Thesis . Contra Mundum . Flat-Earth
Matthew Flannagan has published an article on the Flat-Earth Myth in the December issue of Investigate Magazine that is worth reading.
Read more »By: Stuart|28 November, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: Charles Darwin . Conflict Thesis . Evangelicalism . evolution . Fundamentalism . Higher Criticism . John Scopes . Liberalism . Religion . science . Science Historiography
Stuart re-examines the church’s response to the challenge posed by evolution in the nineteenth century.
Read more »By: Stuart|27 November, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: Conflict Thesis . Deism . Enlightenment . Galileo . Jonathan Edwards . Mechanistic . Newton . Newtonian . Paley
Stuart continues his series on the history of the Conflict Thesis, charting the rise of science after Galileo
Read more »By: Andre Zweck|24 November, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: C. S. Lewis . Jesus of history . Legend . myth . textual criticism
Andre Zweck asks whether we should treat the gospels as we treat the tales of Thor or Hercules.
Read more »By: Stuart|22 November, 2009|Categories: Science & History|Tags: Catholic Church . Conflict Thesis . Copernicus . Galileo . Geocentric . Heliocentric . Religion . science
Stuart examines the Galileo controversy and asks whether it was a clear case of science vs faith.
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