Reading the Bible sensibly
(April 7, 2025)The Bible isn’t always an easy book to read and understand. Here are 7 suggestions to help read it sensibly.
Tag: New Testament
Who decided what’s in the Bible?
(March 10, 2025)How did the Bible come to us? Who wrote it? Whe decided what’s in it and what’s not?
Deconstructing Christmas
(December 17, 2023)If you’re reviewing or deconstructing your faith, what should you think about the Bible’s stories of Jesus’ birth?
Making assumptions about the Bible?
(October 18, 2023)What if many of the assumptions we bring to the Bible are actually questionable?
How well do you know the Christmas story?
(December 18, 2022)The Christmas story is as old as time. We’ve heard it a hundred times, we’ve seen it, we’ve sung it. But how well do we know it really? Test yourself against these twelve questions. The questions Test yourself with these questions, then scroll down to see how well you went. The answers according to history I’ve […]
Getting to know Nazareth
(June 20, 2020)Archaeology continues to reveal new insights into Jesus’ boyhood town and the culture of its inhabitants.
Following Jesus 1.01
(April 9, 2020)Some people have their bucket list – the things they want to do before they kick the bucket. And occasionally you hear people ask “What would you do if you knew you had one day to live?” The answer is often something wild – eat junk food, drink expensive wine, go crazy, self-indulge. This evening […]
How evangelical doctrine and Biblical inerrancy can distort the Bible and Jesus
(August 1, 2019)Most christians have been taught to reverence the Bible. This has been especially true of Protestant christianity. The Reformation was built on the doctrine of sola scriptura (by scripture alone). And when conservative christianity felt threatened by evolution, liberal theology and modernist thinking in the 19th century, it developed a statement of “the fundamentals”, one […]
Larry Hurtado
(July 15, 2019)Larry Hurtado is retired New Testament scholar, Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He has continued hs scholarly work since retiring.
Can I say anything new about the resurrection of Jesus?
(April 18, 2019)I have been re-reading NT Wright’s chapter on the “The Surprise of Resurrection” in Jesus: the final days, where he corrects some doubtful christian ideas about the resurrection, and offers reasons why we should regard the gospel accounts as basically historical.