The very admission of the need to harmonize is an admission that the burden of proof is on the narratives, not on those who doubt them. What harmoniz….

"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment..

Speculation is not knowledge..

It is quite likely ... that the central figure of the gospels is not based on any historical individual. Put simply, not only is the theological "Chr….

Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them..

I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I mus….

One can believe God capable of anything without believing that he did everything anybody may say he did. One can believe in the possibility of miracl….

I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The ….

In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype in which a divine he….

But if they did really refer to some kind of a "personal relationship," it would in effect be a case of channeling. I suspect this is why fundamental….

The piety of "having a personal relationship with Christ" ... is alien to the New Testament... but evangelicals elevate it to the shibboleth of salva….

The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to believe. "If t….

I suspect that, though Craig indulges in a bit of wishful thinking, playing taps for various critical approaches still quite far from death's door, h….

My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up c….

A critic may reject some miracle stories as legendary, and not others, with no inconsistency at all for the simple reason that even if one holds mira….

If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous eleme….

Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial ….

Does it take a blanket presupposition for a historian to discount some miracle stories as legendary? No, because, as even Bultmann recognized, there ….

Many New Testament scholars have observed that the conception of the resurrection body implied in 1 Corinthians 15 clashes so violently with that pre….

"Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead o….

The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood..