In another post, 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 have contact […]
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Did Jesus’ disciples claim that he rose from the dead? If they did, were they sincere in this proclamation? This area is something else that many critics of the resurrection of Jesus often attack and it is an area I will address in this post. Do we have reasons to think that the disciples claimed
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Some skeptics like to claim that the resurrection and other miracles by Jesus are possible but it would require extraordinary amount of evidence to believe it. If the New Testament makes extraordinary claims of miracles, as the skeptic would tell us, we must have extraordinary evidence in order to believe those claims. The objection, on
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David Hume (1711-1776) has been a celebrated skeptic since he put forth his argument against miracles. In this blog post, I plan on refuting it. Here is the argument in syllogistic form: Premise 1: Natural law is by definition a description of a regular occurrence. Premise 2: A miracle is by definition a rare occurrence.
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