Tag: Christian Evidences

The subject of Biblical archaeology is a vast one, so it will be necessary to confine comments here to only a few of the multitude of cases in which archaeological discoveries have vindicated Biblical claims. At many times in the past, scholars have assumed the Bible to be inaccurate until new archa...

It is evident from the foregoing that the period of the Enlightenment was the crucial step in the waning of civilization. This was as true in the area of morals as it was in the intellectual arena. Francis Asbury related that the spiritual climate at that time in England was "a very dark, dark, dark...

In a previous chapter, "Why The Bible Cannot Be Legend," it was shown that because everything that happens has both consequences and a definite context, it is possible to determine whether or not a given historical account is trustworthy. This is especially clear in the historical accounts of the li...

Twentieth-century western democracy and communism were, in a sense, two sides of the same coin. In both, there was an unquestioning acceptance of the atheistic anthropocentric views of the Enlightenment, and these views were carried through to their logical conclusions. On both sides of the iron cur...

In a series of studies by Solomon E. Asch (1955),1 it was found that three out of four people tested agreed with a group of people giving false answers on some comparisons of the lengths of lines. In each of these experiments, an unsuspecting subject was put in a room full of three or more people co...

Twentieth-century philosophers usually consider David Hume's essay, "Of Miracles," to have dealt the decisive death-blow to any belief either in the supernatural or in the miracles of the Bible. This essay appears as the tenth section of Hume's treatise, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, or...

Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism. The many Messianic prophecies of the Hebrew Scriptures were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. Judaism is incomplete without Him, and cannot make sense if His claim to be the Messiah is rejected. The New Testament, or New Covenant, is a fulfillment of Jeremiah's p...

Many people feel that the account given in the Bible of Jonah is legendary, since even if there were a fish big enough to swallow a man, certainly no man would be able to survive three days in its digestive tract and then escape to the outside world. However, again and again, Jesus referred to this ...

The trustworthiness of the Bible's historical statements has been corroborated again and again both through archaeological discoveries and through close correlation of the Bible's content with other independent ancient sources. A comprehensive study of this topic would be far beyond the scope of the...

Many books and articles have been written on the use of the Old Testament made by the New Testament writers.1 In the present context, the discussion will be limited to an examination of how the apostles and the other writers of the new Testament had the same high view of the Old Testament as did Jes...

David Nelson, a physician of the nineteenth century, ultimately became a Christian partly because of the experiences he had at the bedside of many of his patients just before the time of their death. He wrote: First, I have known those--the cases are not unfrequent--who were brave, who had stood un...

The accuracy of the present-day Hebrew version of the Old Testament is a result of the fastidious care with which the Sopherim and the Masoretes transmitted it. The Sopherim copied manuscripts of the Hebrew Scriptures from about 300 B.C. until A.D. 500. According to the Talmud, they came to be calle...