Tacitus—Ancient Roman Historian—Reports on Jesus
Most of what happened in the ancient world went unrecorded. Think about it. People from bygone eras didn’t have technology like YouTube, TV, or the internet — much less the printing press. It’s sad...
Author: RYAN LEASURE
What Happened At the Council of Nicea?
Church history has its share of watershed moments. The Protestant Reformation and the Great Awakening immediately come to mind. But perhaps even more important than those events is the monumental Council of Nicea. Despite...
What Biblical Books Are Included in the Earliest Canonical Lists?
There are two opposing ways to view the history of the canon. One would be to believe that the church, in its entirety, uniformly accepted all twenty-seven books of the New Testament as canonical...
Why The Gospel Of Thomas Isn’t In the Bible
There’s a common refrain among liberal scholars that says the church suppressed dozens of Gospels. The reason they say? It’s because those books share scandalous information about Jesus that the church wanted to hide....
The Gospel Authors Knew Palestinian Geography
We’re told by skeptics that eye-witnesses didn’t write the Gospels. Not only that, they say the authors wrote from distant lands like Rome, Egypt, Asia Minor, or Greece. They merely heard the stories of...
Jesus: The Greater Moses
An untrained eye might miss it, but the Old Testament properly read, points to Jesus. From Genesis forward, we see reference after reference to a coming Messiah who would one day crush the head...
Scientific Evidence for the Creation Event
In his book Faith vs. Fact, atheist Jerry Coyne remarks, “religion and science are engaged in a kind of war: a war for understanding, a war about whether we should have good reasons for what...
Does Fine-Tuning Point to a Cosmic Designer?
Philosopher Robin Collins gives the illustration of astronauts discovering an enclosed biosphere on the planet Mars. As they approach the control panel, they discover several dials — each with a range of settings —...
Could the Universe Be Eternal?
One of my favorite arguments for God’s existence is the Kalam Cosmological Argument. While this argument has historical roots, contemporary Christian philosopher William Lane Craig has popularized it more recently. The argument goes like...
Is Earth Just a Pale Blue Dot?
In his book Pale Blue Dot, the late astronomer Carl Sagan had this to say about the above photograph taken aboard Voyager I: Because of the reflection of sunlight . . . Earth seems to be...