Reading Time: 5 minutes Defining Inerrancy Biblical inerrancy cannot mean that everything the Bible says is true. There are False statements by Job’s counsellors that are not accurate and Pilate mocking the truth but are recorded. Those who defend this doctrine would say that the Bible is truthful in everything that it affirms or Read more…
Reading Time: 8 minutes Basinger and Basinger argue that if you hold to the doctrine of biblical inerrancy then you cannot use the free will defense to answer the problem of evil. Randall Basinger and David Basinger, “Inerrancy, Dictation and The Free Will Defence,” Evangelical Quarterly 55 (1983): pp. 177-180. (The free will defense Read more…
Reading Time: 6 minutes Theory 1: Dictation God tells the human author what to write. The human author simply records what God has dictated to him. This would make the humans stenographers (A person whose job is to transcribe speech in shorthand). The Qur’an is dictated by Allah to Muhammad, and Muhammad is simply Read more…
Reading Time: 5 minutes Introduction Key to the study of Christian theology is the question of authority. Who has the authority to speak about matters of God and our relationship to him? Is it sacred Scripture, or is it the church? As Christians, we would suggest authority ultimately lodges in God himself. Any other Read more…
Reading Time: 18 minutes If you’re reading these in order you’ll note that we have investigated the oral traditions, explored these early creeds, seen what teachings they preserve from the beginning. One could say the task is done, but it would be worthwhile seeing how these Christian doctrines were preserved across border, what happened Read more…
Reading Time: 18 minutes Contents Introduction Christological creeds 1 Corinthians 15: 3-7 Luke 24:34 Historical Facts critical scholars grant (add after creeds) Synopsis of creeds Conclusion Sources Introduction What facts did the earliest Christians report concerning Jesus in the initial years after his crucifixion? Of what did the earliest Christology consist before the forming Read more…
Reading Time: 9 minutes What’s so important about Paul? Why not “Peter, the Skeleton key? We know Paul wrote Galatians, every New Testament critic in the relevant field will grant that Galatians can be dated to 49AD Testimony within Galatians takes us to within 18 months of the cross What did Paul receive? This Read more…
Reading Time: 19 minutes Those who are sceptical to oral tradition will often cite the telephone analogy. The telephone game consists of one person whispering the story to another and part of the fun is the distortion of the message. It was never designed to be clear, that would be the counter-objective of the Read more…
Reading Time: 30 minutes Revelation, 95 AD 1,2,3 John 85-90 AD Hebrews 68-70 AD 2 Timothy 66/67 AD 2 Peter 64/65 AD Acts 66/68 AD Jude 65 AD 1 Peter 64/65 AD Titus 64 AD 1 Timothy 64 AD Luke 61-64 AD Matthew 61-64 AD Philippians 61 AD Philemon 60 AD Colossians 60 AD Read more…
Reading Time: 7 minutes When people make the assertion that people have deliberately falsified the New Testament text and changed it, there are some strong logistical challenges to this idea. If we begin with the four gospels, what we find is that at first, each of the four gospels is written in separate places Read more…