By Brian Chilton| Gary Habermas is no stranger to those who study the historicity of Jesus’s resurrection. He is a world-renowned scholar on the resurrection who serves as a Research Scholar teaching in the Ph.D. program in Theology and Apologetics at Liberty University’s School of Divinity. Habermas’s claim to fame is his six minimal facts ..read more

By Erik Manning| Skeptical Biblical critics like John Shelby Spong say that it’s impossible that the Apostle John wrote the Gospel of John. Spong writes: “There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual ..read more

By Mike Shreve| The New Age Movement is a term that covers a lot of territory spiritually. It can reach all the way to the left and embrace the dark side of the occult like Wicca, witchcraft, and even Satanism. It can reach all the way to the right and embrace things like success seminars ..read more

By Steven Bancarz| Logos Bible Software has been a tremendous blessing to me over the years. I have been using it since the spring of 2017, and it has become foundational to my personal study, content creation, and schooling. It’s been a game-changer with the amount of time I save, and I would have a ..read more

By Mike Shreve| Buddha’s main teaching focused on escape from suffering. When he claimed to experience Nirvana, one of the resulting insights was a concept labeled: “The Four Noble Truths.” These succinctly state that life is inevitably going to include suffering, and the cause of suffering is desire. To overcome suffering, therefore, we must overcome ..read more

By Erik Manning| Bart Ehrman claims that Luke wasn’t really a traveling companion of Paul. In his book Forged, Ehrman writes: “(The author of Acts) is simply claiming to be a traveling companion of Paul’s and therefore unusually well suited to give a “true” account of Paul’s message and mission. But he almost certainly was not a companion of ..read more

By James Bishop| Background research was conducted into this story to determine its reliability, and it appears that Duane Miller’s healing is legitimate. It has become a widely cited “miracle” too (1). In 1990, Miller was serving as the senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Brenham, Texas when he contracted a flu virus (2 ..read more

By Mike Shreve| Most yoga practitioners believe in seven invisible energy centers in the body called chakras. Interestingly—a little note here at the beginning—the guru I studied under in 1969-70 taught that the chakras were just “imaginary and nothing else.”1 Apparently, he considered them just an aid to meditation, but actually non-existent. Of course, many […] The post What Is The 3rd Eye, & Did Jesus Mention It? first appeared on Reasons for Jesus ..read more

By Erik Manning| How we know the books that we have in the New Testament are the right books? Why isn’t the Gospel of Thomas or the Gospel of Mary included with the other four gospels? And didn’t the teachings of the disciples and apostles get corrupted over the centuries? Christians often get tested with […] The post How Polycarp Gives Us Evidence For The Early Use Of The New Testament first appeared on Reasons for Jesus ..read more

By James Bishop| Jesus mythicists are often guilty of arguing from silence when they attempt to bring doubt to the historical existence of Jesus Christ, the founder of the Christian religion. They will argue that because certain ancient writers did not mention Jesus when they “should” have, it follows that Jesus did not exist. There […] The post Some Ancient Historians Didn't Mention Jesus: Proof He Didn't Exist? first appeared on Reasons for Jesus ..read more