Welcome to Week Ten! The final week in How To Study the Bible series! (To begin the series click here.) As you explore Mark 15 & 16, you will… 1) gain an indepth understanding of the final week of Jesus’ life and his resurrection 2) learn how to use the harmony of the Gospels to blend the different points of view and how…
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Socrates and Jesus: Proof in the Words
The first post attested to the existence of Jesus and Socrates. The second in the series demonstrated the reliability of the written records. We now turn to the veracity of the written accounts. Are the words originally recorded by the disciples a faithful record of Jesus’ and Socrates’ sayings, conversations and lives? Herein lies the…
Socrates and Jesus: Proof Across the Millenium
So we know that both Socrates and Jesus existed. They walked on this earth. (If you missed the reasoning on this, please click back to the first post in this trilogy on the series.) Now we turn to the words themselves. What is the internal reliability of our sources? One test of authenticity is the bibliographical…
Socrates and Jesus: Proof in the Writers
Was Jesus really a man who walked on this earth? The answer is pivotal. My faith centers on Jesus Christ, divine and yet fully man…born a babe in a humble manger of present day West Bank. If he did not exist or if his words were falsely recorded, I have much to lament. “If only…
