I recently saw a Facebook post from Chris Powell that linked an interview with Stephen Carlson about some Christmas issues . Carlson makes ...

I've seen some recent skeptical videos that repeat the common objection that the behavior of the people involved in Matthew 2 doesn'...

I just listened to it live. There's supposed to be a recording available within a few days, but I'll just go by my memory and notes ...

C.J. Cornthwaite recently produced a video that's partly about the subject . I want to make several points in response:

The reference to Adam as "the son of God" in Luke 3:38 is unusual. And Jesus had just been referred to as the Son of God in Luke 3...

It's sometimes argued that the infancy narratives were added to Matthew and/or Luke sometime after the documents were originally publish...

Critics of the Bethlehem birthplace often act as if they're confident that Jesus wasn't born there or that he was born in Nazareth i...

I wrote a post a few years ago about a geographical argument for prophecy fulfillment related to Christmas . It's based on Micah 5:2 and...

The first is more commonly discussed, but is sometimes neglected. Matthew 2:16 suggests that Jesus was somewhat close to two years old when ...

A lot depends on the audience you're addressing. Talking to a doubting Christian is different than talking to a Jesus mythicist who'...

One of the problems with the popular claim that the concept of a virgin birth was borrowed from paganism is that it would be so easy for any...

There are ongoing disagreements about why Matthew refers to Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, and Bathsheba in Matthew 1:3-6. It's sometimes suggested...

Since Jesus' childhood spanned so many years and so many issues are involved, there's no quick and easy way to address everything. B...

I recently heard somebody make that claim. If Jesus' brothers grew up in the same house as Jesus, which would have included having a lar...

Joan Taylor recently published a book about Jesus' childhood, Boy Jesus (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Academic, 2025). Taylor is a ...

Lydia McGrew was recently interviewed about the historical reliability of the Biblical accounts of Jesus' childhood and made a lot of g...

Trent Horn recently put out a video that largely reiterates some points he's made before about sola scriptura . In the process, he repea...

The authorship of the gospel of Matthew has important implications for issues related to the childhood of Jesus. The gospel says a lot about...

Last year, I wrote about the implications of John 19:27 for Mary's influence on the apostle John, the church of Ephesus, and other sourc...

Nor would disproving the star of Bethlehem, the Slaughter of the Innocents, etc. Events like those are relevant to Jesus' place of birth...