Much is made of alleged inconsistencies among the New Testament resurrection accounts. Their common ground is often underestimated. One thi...

We should argue for Jesus' resurrection by appealing to multiple lines of evidence, including the general credibility of the sources. On...

It's common for critics of the resurrection to argue against it by means of other alleged miracles, such as Marian apparitions. The argu...

Don't stop at 1 Corinthians 15 when you're reading that chapter or discussing it in the context of the Easter season or whatever oth...

I've sometimes come across people who argue that the early corroboration of the empty tomb by non-Christian sources doesn't have mu...

An Easter issue I've changed my mind about is whether Jude was an apostle in the fullest sense of the term, meaning that he had seen the...

The resurrection appearance to James (1 Corinthians 15:7) doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should. That's probably largely...

For an overview of which evidence for Jesus' resurrection to focus on most, see my post here . Steve Hays wrote a lengthier post on how ...

I've written about my overall view of the Zeitoun case elsewhere, such as here and here . What I want to do in this post is expand upon...

"The love of God and the love of the world are like the scales of a balance: as one falls the other rises. When our natural inclination...

It's popular to apply the passage to something like a situation in which a man refuses to look for a job and wants to live off of govern...

Tertullian acknowledged that people were justified apart from baptism during Jesus' public ministry. But in response to critics of bapti...

Josephus is an important source on some baptismal issues, but he often gets overlooked or underestimated. He refers to how John the Baptist...

When 2 Thessalonians 2:15 comes up in discussions related to the Christian rule of faith, we can begin by going several verses earlier and a...

I disagreed with him on a lot of issues, but, as with anybody who does the sort of work he did, there's a lot to agree with him about an...

I'm not just referring to formal debates, though they're part of the problem. The bigger problem is how Protestants in general handl...

I've written before about how opposition to the perpetual virginity of Mary persisted beyond the earliest centuries, into the late patri...

Critics of Christianity often allege that there was widespread disunity among the early Christians: Paul disagreeing with the Twelve, a Petr...

A common mistake in the Christian life is to get overly focused on our contemporaries. Neglect of God is the most significant form that take...

In other posts, I've discussed some of the problems with taking John 3:5 as a reference to baptismal regeneration. The exchange between ...