I want to add a lesser point to what I discussed in my last post . Thomas doesn't have the prominence Philip does in the lists of Jesus...

He was recently on Ross Douthat's Interesting Times podcast , and there was some discussion of the historicity of the gospels, the resur...

I've been discussing the perpetual virginity of Mary in some of my recent posts, and one of the issues I've brought up is how often ...

We're accustomed to framing timing issues in early Christianity around Jesus' life. He died in the 30s, so we think of a document wr...

Jordan Cooper recently released a video that's partly an argument for baptismal regeneration . I've already interacted with the larg...

The early impact of Jesus' resurrection is sometimes divided up between two phases, the initial witnesses and the much later appearance ...

We often think of the evidence for the authorship of the gospels in terms of internal evidence and external sources of the patristic era, li...

When Cornelius' justification apart from baptism in Acts 10 is discussed, the focus tends to be on verses 44-48 and the timing of the re...

An explanation often put forward for why Cornelius and those with him were justified prior to baptism in Acts 10:43-48 is that the prebaptis...

One of the factors to take into account when judging the small number of passages in Acts that are cited against justification through faith...

I want to comment on one of the issues involved in the controversy over Acts 2:38 and the relationship between justification and baptism. So...

Acts 12:2 reports his martyrdom. Notice the corroboration of that account elsewhere in the New Testament. Though James is so prominent in th...

Something the Synoptics, the fourth gospel, and Acts have in common is that they refer to Jesus' use of mountains. And we often see two ...

Luuk van de Weghe and Jason Wilson recently published an article furthering the argument for the historicity of the gospels and Acts based o...

The documents are written in different genres and at different lengths (the shortness of some of Paul's letters), among other difference...

I've written before about how Acts ends with a "we" passage that places the author in Rome and how some of the earliest eviden...

There are some good arguments that are often brought up for the material on Jesus' appearance to Paul in Acts, such as the authorship of...

I've occasionally discussed a line of argument for the gospels and Acts based on the names of individuals in those documents . Lydia McG...

Luuk van de Weghe is a New Testament scholar who's recently done some work on an argument for the historical reliability of the gospels ...

Lydia McGrew just concluded a good series of videos on the following topic: This week I'm starting a series about this question: Does ...