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Clear searchSimon Greenleaf · Legal examination of testimony · 1846
A nineteenth-century legal scholar's examination of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as witnesses, asking how their credibility, consistency, knowledge, conduct, and accounts would fare under principles used to assess evidence in courts of justice.
View recommendation →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…l attention to Jesus' arrest, condemnation, crucifixion, death and burial (Matthew 26-27; Mark 14-15; Luke 22-23; John 18-19). This should be stated carefully. The four accounts are not four entirely independent modern depositions. Matthew and Luke use Mark and other material; th…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…is the strongest recognisable form of the Islamic claim. It does not deny that Jesus is remarkable. It denies that anything He says or does removes Him from the category of a human prophet. The question is whether that category can contain the Jesus of the Gospels. This cannot be…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…stians no longer possess the original Injeel. Jesus received one revelation, but Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are later human accounts. They may retain fragments of His genuine teaching, but the original book was corrupted, obscured or lost. That answer must do more than create a…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…n: "The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord." —Mark 12:29 He did not treat the Hebrew Scriptures as the relics of a discarded religion. He declared that they testified of Him, answered temptation from Deuteronomy, interpreted His mission…
Read article →Samuel G. Green · Historical survey · 1904
…Those limits should be kept in mind, but they do not diminish its value as a lucid and remarkably balanced guide to the first fifteen centuries. Apostolic Church Church Fathers Councils Doctrinal development Eastern and Western Churches Medieval Church Reform movements
View recommendation →How an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination
…umber are both meaningful and difficult. Well-known passages such as the longer ending of Mark and the account of the woman taken in adultery are marked in responsible modern editions precisely because the evidence is discussed openly. That does not mean every textual question ha…
Read article →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…re the crucifixion. The calculation is ingenious and has rightly drawn attention to the remarkable messianic shape of Daniel's chronology. It should not be presented as though every premise were uncontested. Interpreters dispute which Persian decree begins the count, whether the…
Read article →Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
…lly. The Jewish people's preservation and return to the ancestral land are historically remarkable and may properly be considered in light of prophecy. But no government receives moral immunity from Scripture. Let me therefore state my own position plainly. If being a Zionist mea…
Read article →Matthew, the Hebrew word almah, and a sign whose meaning reaches beyond Ahaz
…married could conceive and bear in the ordinary course, and the child's early years would mark the collapse of the hostile alliance. The promised child grows larger than the first crisis If the passage ended at Isaiah 7:16, the near-historical reading might appear sufficient. It…
Read article →Seeing God, bodily resurrection, and life in the renewed creation
…. Jesus' own resurrection was physical and recognisable: He could be touched, He bore the marks of crucifixion, and He ate with His disciples. Paul does call the resurrection body “spiritual” (1 Corinthians 15:44), but the contrast is not between material and immaterial. A spirit…
Read article →Divine judgement, the character of God, and the promise of escape
…is to gather the Church into safety before the indignation falls. Isaiah gives language remarkably suited to that expectation: "Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be over…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…reverse their fortunes. Its text was memorised, written, collected and transmitted with remarkable stability. Its language has shaped worship, law, civilisation and personal devotion across many centuries. The informed argument is therefore cumulative: Muhammad was not equipped b…
Read article →The peace Christ gives in a troubled world
…foundation is God, not our control of tomorrow. Sometimes this peace is experienced as remarkable calm. At other times it appears as the quieter grace to continue: enough light for the next step, enough strength for the present duty and enough confidence to pray again. We should…
Read article →Why the Trinity is not polytheism—and why Christians confess one God
…s none else, there is no God beside me” (Isaiah 45:5). Jesus affirms Israel's confession (Mark 12:29), and Paul writes, “there is none other God but one” (1 Corinthians 8:4). The Trinity was not developed to escape those declarations. It protects them. The Son is not a second dei…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…uke 1:1–4). He later introduces the ministry of John the Baptist by locating it among a remarkable concentration of rulers and religious authorities: “Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Gal…
Read article →Why a loaded label does not settle the question
…Noah was secured before the Flood. Lot was removed before fire fell upon Sodom. Rahab was marked out before Jericho was destroyed. Israel passed through the Red Sea before it closed upon Egypt's army. Peter draws the moral principle from Noah and Lot: “The Lord knoweth how to del…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…:21). The Messiah’s identity and the Messiah’s death are joined in His own instruction. Remarkably, the Qur’an also calls Jesus the Messiah. It announces one “whose name is the Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary” in Surah 3:45 (Pickthall) and again calls Him “the Messiah, Jesus son of M…
Read article →Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come
…modern Israel is neither a prophetic irrelevance nor the completed restoration. It is a remarkable and providential stage in the restoration whose decisive spiritual fulfilment still awaits the return of Messiah. Israel has returned nationally. Israel will be restored spiritually…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…s the paralytic to demonstrate that “the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins” (Mark 2:10). He declares Himself Lord of the sabbath. He commands wind and sea. He walks upon the waters in a manner which recalls the LORD’s mastery of the deep. He receives worship rather t…
Read article →Irenaeus of Lyons · Early Christian theology and polemic · c. 180–190
I value Irenaeus for his remarkably high view of Scripture and for the patience with which he first explains his opponents and then answers them. His rebuttal of Gnosticism contains powerful discussions of the true hu…
View recommendation →Four popular claims tested in context
…of one God to Arabian tribes. The reference to Kedar is therefore taken as a geographical marker identifying him. This is probably the most plausible-looking of the four arguments because Kedar really does have an Arabian association. The error lies not in noticing Kedar, but in…
Read article →Election within Abraham's family, the believing remnant, and the future of the nation
…:21-31 Michael Cranford, "Election and Ethnicity: Paul's View of Israel in Romans 9:1-13" Mark D. Nanos, "The Gifts and the Calling of God Are Irrevocable: If So, How Can Paul Declare That Not All Israelites Truly Belong to Israel?" Susan Grove Eastman, "Israel and the Mercy of G…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…and the beast exercises authority for forty-two months. These are Danielic and Israelite markers, not the ordinary language of Paul's body of Christ. Nor does the Spirit abandon the earth. He gave life and empowered servants before Pentecost and can do so after the Church's pres…
Read article →A forensic reading of Christ's Olivet Discourse
…salem-centred emergency. Geography alone cannot identify the elect. It supplies the first marker: the discourse is rooted in the land and institutions of Israel. Clue two: "elect" already has a biblical history The word "elect" does not arrive in Matthew without a history. In the…
Read article →A sign of Israel's renewal, not Israel's disappearance
…ters. Jesus came proclaiming, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand" (Mark 1:15). He announced good news in Israel's towns, taught in its synagogues, went up to its feasts, and identified His immediate mission with "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matt…
Read article →The positive argument of the whole series, brought together
…rusalem is later destroyed. The final week therefore remains distinct, with a covenant, a marked midpoint, sacrifice, abomination, and desolation (Daniel 9:26-27). Jesus places Daniel's abomination before unparalleled Great Tribulation and His manifested coming (Matthew 24:15-31)…
Read article →Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
…ntrusted to Him. Jesus taught that the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath (Mark 2:27). Rest is not the enemy of useful work; it is one of the ways we confess that the world does not depend upon us. Work becomes an idol when we cannot stop, when success determines o…
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