Merry Christmas! The Word Was Made Flesh

Authorship of John Part 2: Our Earliest Evidence

Authorship of John Part 1: Introduction

Examining Dale Allison's Arguments for "the appearance to the twelve"

Bereavement Apparitions 6: Not everybody can see him!

Bereavement Apparitions 5: Not with a bang but a whimper

Bereavement Apparitions 4: Polymodality and eating

Bereavement Apparitions 3: Does not approach, cannot be followed

Bereavement Apparitions 2: Appear only for a few seconds

Bereavement Apparitions 1: How long does Jesus speak?

Is this ancient novel realistic??

Okay, what about SOME kind of group experience?

"No, not THOSE group appearances!"

Are "vast majority" claims defined and documented?

Unstated Gospel Symbolism: Fudge factors!

Unstated Gospel Symbolism: And this is also too easy!

Unstated Gospel symbolism: It's too easy!

Unstated symbolism vs. memoir reportage

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 6: Dale Allison and the conversion of James

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 5: Does Habermas misrepresent Ehrman? Yes and No

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 4: The Jesus Seminar shows respect for John 20:19-23??

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 3: Trunk and branches dependence

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 2: Jesus Seminar Group Appearance Lists

Misunderstandings of Liberal Scholars 1: Bad tone warning

A Priori History: 5-Digit License Plate?

Gospel Development Theories Are All Bunk: Engagement with Pharisees 7

Gospel Development Theories Are All Bunk: Engagement With Pharisees 6

Gospel Development Theories are All Bunk: Engagement With Pharisees 5

Gospel Development Theories Are All Bunk: Engagement with Pharisees 4

Gospel Development Theories are all Bunk: Engagement with Pharisaism 3

Gospel Development Theories Are All Bunk: "Engagement with Pharisaism" 2

Gospel Development Theories are All Bunk: "Engagement with Pharisaism" 1

Matthean Discourses 5: Yep, sometimes Jesus just repeats himself!

Matthean Discourses 4: Jesus teaching the same thing twice in one gospel!

Matthean Discourses 3: Mountain vs Plain

Easter 2025: Where did the women see an angel?

Matthean Discourses 2: Why Pit Luke Against Matthew?

Matthean Discourses 1: What is a composite discourse, and why should you care?

Tolkien, Sanderson, World-building, and the Gospels

History, the Gospel of Peter, and Jesus' Crucifixion

Bart Ehrman Cherry Picks on the Raising of Lazarus

Bayes, Partitions, and the Resurrection

If you're an evidentialist, what's the point of church?

Is the evidence in a Max Data case a burden?

Literary Theories vs. Common Sense Errancy

Poor Methodology in Non-Biblical interpretation: Pelling's weak argument

Deceptions Are Not Devices 2: Josephus' propaganda and the Repentant Thief

Deceptions Are Not Devices: Lucian's trolling

Discrepancy Hunting in Non-Biblical Literature: Couldn't Sallust just have made a mistake?

Discrepancy Hunting in Non-Biblical History: Why Couldn't Plutarch Just Make a Mistake?

Bad Methodology: Discrepancy Hunting in Non-biblical History

Don't Do a priori History!

Virgin Birth and Resurrection: No epistemological mystery

The Rigid Rule of Deliberateness

Rigid Scholars Mock Harmonization

Rigidity, Gateway Drugs, and Jairus

The Rigid Rule of All-or-nothing Factual Independence

The Rigid Rule of First Impressions

Rigid critical scholars: Is there a contradiction about Jesus' words on the cross?

Three Meanings of Meaning