This is from a note on section 2:27 of Ernest Evans' edition of Tertullian's Against Marcion, found here . I haven't studied thi...

"The hardest thing to raise funds for, that I know of, in Christendom is for Christian education. You want to raise money for evangelis...

Here are some comments I posted in a YouTube discussion about prayers to the dead. This was written in response to somebody's citation o...

I've often made the point that many sources in the early centuries of Christianity discuss bodily assumptions, people who never died, pe...

When Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox are discussing early church history, it's common for them to make misleading claims about the ...

Than Christopoulos and Caleb Jackson recently produced a video that makes a lot of good points in response to the common objection that God ...

Music didn't have much of a role in the Enfield case , but it was involved to some extent. And it's an aspect of the case that's...

It's become popular in some Roman Catholic circles to cite Epiphanius out of context in order to make it look as though he affirmed the ...

Gavin Ortlund just put out a video on the subject that makes a lot of good points . One of the things he brings up is that ancient sources o...

The question is a variation of the issue of whether there's more good than evil in life, and it's a good variation that doesn't ...

Here are some comments I posted in the YouTube thread on early Christian eschatology that I linked earlier :

Critics of early Christian eschatology often allege that Mark 13:30 makes a false prediction that Jesus' second coming will occur before...

Here's a really good video by Than Christopoulos and Bram Rawlings on the claim that Jesus and the early Christians falsely predicted t...

"For our good, about which philosophers have so keenly contended, is nothing else than to be united to God. It is, if I may say so, by ...

"When I ever hear a young person say 'I'm bored', my response to them was always 'I haven't been bored since 1978....

The canon of gospels in the New Testament is often questioned or doubted. Why include those four gospels and not others? It's sometimes ...

Mike Winger recently made some good points about objections that are often raised when people make comments about thoughts and prayers .

In an earlier post , I discussed some evidence for Paul's authorship of Ephesians. It was largely about the history of the Ephesian chur...

In the debate I discussed in my last post , Alex O'Connor raised a common objection to the resurrection accounts in the gospels. Suppose...

Jonathan McLatchie and Alex O'Connor (CosmicSkeptic) recently debated the topic "Theism or Naturalism, which provides a better acco...