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Clear searchSimon Greenleaf · Legal examination of testimony · 1846
Greenleaf's work is worthwhile because it asks readers to take the four Gospel witnesses seriously as testimony rather than dismissing them by prejudice or accepting them without examination. His legal approach draws attention to the difference between contradiction an…
View recommendation →Labour, purpose, and faithfulness in a fallen world
…that are without" (1 Thessalonians 4:11–12). Ordinary reliability forms part of Christian witness. Paying what we owe, keeping our word, doing what we agreed to do and refusing dishonesty under pressure may not look dramatic, but such things reveal whom we fear and serve. There a…
Read article →Origen, Arius and the line between Creator and creation
…of Christ from television shows and documentaries, Muslims, Latter-day Saints, Jehovah’s Witnesses—and, if you have children, they may encounter them too, perhaps even through teachers or classmates. Understanding why Scripture identifies Jesus as the eternal Creator helps us pr…
Read article →Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence
…together. A case is not decided by leaving every item of evidence in a separate room. The witnesses must be brought together. The competing explanations must be compared. Each faith must be required to account not merely for the evidence it prefers, but for the whole body of evid…
Read article →Constantine, Arius, the Trinity, the biblical canon—and the myths that refuse to die
…That omission is revealing. We do not possess complete minutes of the council, and the eyewitnesses were not neutral modern reporters. Eusebius of Caesarea admired Constantine; Athanasius spent much of his life defending the Nicene settlement; Constantine had an imperial interest…
Read article →Faith, assurance, and the unseen reality of God
…11 also keeps us from turning faith into confidence in whatever we happen to desire. Its witnesses respond to God. Their hope has an object beyond their own wishes. Faith does not make a thing true because we believe it strongly. The believer’s assurance rests on the faithfulnes…
Read article →Irenaeus of Lyons · Early Christian theology and polemic · c. 180–190
…s of creation, and the unity of the Old and New Testaments. He is also an important early witness to a future earthly kingdom: his premillennial passages show that this expectation cannot simply be dismissed as a recent invention. Read Irenaeus as an early witness, not as an auth…
View recommendation →Near-death experiences, neuroscience, and the authority of Christ
…sal salvation, spirit guides and the meaning of death. That remains the right question. A testimony may be moving without being self-interpreting. An experience may be sincere without every conclusion drawn from it being true. In the decades since Brooke wrote, resuscitation medi…
Read article →How the Law reaches its goal and appointed end in Christ
…and moving on. Paul speaks positively about the Law: it is holy, just, and good; it bears witness to the righteousness of God; and faith does not make it void. Yet he also speaks of a decisive change: believers have died to the Law, are delivered from it, and are no longer under…
Read article →The crucifixion in history, Scripture and the Qur'an
…sources, in traditions which predate the documents preserving them, in several streams of testimony and in non-Christian historical writing. A later source could correct earlier sources if it supplied compelling reason to do so. It cannot prevail merely by contradicting them. The…
Read article →Does John 6 teach the literal eating of Christ's body?
…t reception in John 6 is faith—not the physical mechanism of a sacrament. Early Christian witnesses including Tertullian and Augustine reached the same conclusion from the text. Their testimony is not offered as an infallible authority alongside Scripture. It demonstrates that th…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…another book, another prophet and another account of Jesus, then demands that the earlier witness be reinterpreted wherever it disagrees. That claim must now enter the witness box. Why should anyone believe that the Qur'an came from God? The usual answers form a cumulative case.…
Read article →Two failures, two responses, and the difference between remorse and repentance
…itially realise. Both were personally chosen to accompany Jesus. Both heard His teaching, witnessed His miracles, and shared in the life of the disciples. Both were warned that they would fail Him. Both acted against light they had received. Neither man could claim ignorance of w…
Read article →The divine identity of Jesus across the Gospels
…ed a human life establishes what the incarnation affirms; it does not answer the Gospel's testimony concerning who became flesh. The resurrection completes the portrait All four Gospels culminate in the resurrection. Mark announces that the crucified Jesus "is risen; he is not he…
Read article →Sources behind Qur’anic narratives
…odily resurrection. Its development across languages demonstrates circulation, but not eyewitness history. The Qur’an’s version is not independent corroboration if the Qur’an arose in the same cultural world through which the story travelled. To establish independent confirmation…
Read article →An unrequited love for the historic Church
…isely. The Nicene confession did not invent the deity of Christ; it guarded the apostolic witness against interpretations designed to evade it. A later formulation can articulate an earlier truth with greater precision. But the category of development cannot be allowed to do unli…
Read article →The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell
…distinction is not damaging to the Christian case; it is simply the truth. The Old Greek witness Daniel also circulated in ancient Greek. The earlier Old Greek translation arose within Jewish transmission before it was displaced in most Christian manuscripts by the version assoc…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…:48 calls the Qur'an muhaymin over previous Scripture - variously understood as guardian, witness, overseer or criterion. Whatever agrees with the Qur'an may preserve genuine revelation; whatever contradicts it has been corrupted or misunderstood. That is a more serious position…
Read article →The near was real. The far is still coming.
…re originally delivered as one uninterrupted address. The question is what their combined testimony leads us to expect. Isaiah 32: A king shall reign “Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.” — Isaiah 32:1 Isaiah begins chapter 32 with gov…
Read article →Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world
…s God fulfilling Israel's Scriptures through Israel's Messiah, first proclaimed by Jewish witnesses in Jerusalem and then carried to the nations. Gentiles do not enter by replacing that story. We are welcomed into blessings which came through it. Recovering this setting does more…
Read article →What Jesus promised the apostles about Israel's future
…hrones make the governing sense especially clear. The apostles are not pictured as twelve witnesses appearing briefly to condemn Israel. They are seated rulers under the Son of man, administering His righteous kingdom in relation to the tribes. This authority is not independent o…
Read article →Born, begotten and firstborn in the eternal identity and saving work of the Son
…stinction, trace the words through Scripture, compare their contexts, and allow the whole testimony of Scripture to govern the conclusion. The mature form of that method requires one further discipline. A concordance can show us where an English word occurs, and a lexicon can sho…
Read article →The Gospel, Human Perception, and the Illuminating Work of the Holy Spirit
…wards God with a changed mind about Him, our sin, and Christ. Faith means believing God’s testimony and relying upon His Son. Neither is a price paid to make the sacrifice effective. God justifies through faith, freely by grace. Acts 3:19; Romans 3:24–28. Believing does not chang…
Read article →Earth-dwellers, heaven-dwellers, and the literary structure of the Apocalypse
…ve. If the Church is gathered before the final week, people may still believe through the testimony of Scripture, sealed servants, angelic proclamation, and prophetic witnesses. Pretribulationists must not use "Tribulation saints" as a label which makes every difficulty disappear…
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