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Read MoreFebruary 12, 2012 Category: Bible, Bible Curriculum, Bible Speakers, Biblical Studies, Craig Smith, Featured No Comments
Dr. Richard Bauckham, author of Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony will be appearing on the main stage at the 2012 Word Conference. Dr. Bauckham will be sharing some of his groundbreaking research into the evidence that the Gospels were written by first-hand observers (or people with access to such eyewitnesses)of the events they recorded.
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Richard Bauckham was until recently Professor of New Testament Studies and Bishop Wardlaw Professor in the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and is now Professor Emeritus at St Andrews. He was born in London in 1946, and educated at Downhills and Merryhills primary schools and Enfield Grammar School. He then studied at Cambridge, where he read history at Clare College (gaining a B.A. Honours degree, first class, and a Ph.D.), and was a Fellow of St John’s College for three years. After teaching theology for one year at the University of Leeds, he taught historical and contemporary theology for fifteen years at the University of Manchester, before moving to St Andrews in 1992. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a …
Read MoreFebruary 6, 2012 Category: Apologetics, Bible, Bible Speakers, Biblical Reliability, Biblical Studies, Christian speakers, Faith & Culture, Featured No Comments
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January 25, 2012 Category: Bible, Featured No Comments
[please note that this article is written to be accessible to the average Christian, but deals with a complex subject that requires, at times, reference to detailed lines of evidence. Please refer to the footnotes for additional explanations and evidence for points made in the main body of the article]
Have you ever been following along in your Bible during a sermon and been distracted by seeing something like this: [the earliest manuscripts and some other ancient witnesses do not have verses 9-20]?[1] Worse, have you been distracted by such a comment only to be dismayed when the pastor skipped over it as though it wasn’t there, leaving your questions, concerns and maybe even doubts unacknowledged and unaddressed?
We don’t find these things very often in the Bible, but they are there, and it’s important for Christians to know how to think about them…and how to answer questions about them that come from our kids, from skeptics and seekers or even from an unsettled place in our own hearts.
In both of my roles as a pastor and a biblical scholar, …
Read MoreJanuary 18, 2012 Tags: ending of mark, ending of mark's gospel, longer ending of mark, mark, mark 16, mark 16:9-20
Category: Apologetics, Bible, Biblical Reliability, Biblical Studies, Craig Smith, Featured, Gospels, Tough Questions 5 Comments
Some follow-up questions about baptism and forgiveness. See Part I for the first installment of this article.
Matthew 3:11 “I baptize you with water for repentance…”- Could this be saying you receive repentance through baptism?
It could be saying this, but at least two things argue against such a reading. First, repentance is typically something that the individual determines to do, not something that that the individual receives. Salvation is received because the individual has repented, but to speak of receiving repentance would be nearly incomprehensible. Second, as we see in the quote from Josephus I mentioned earlier, it is clear that everyone back then understood that the baptism took place in response to repentance, not as a means of it. This also fits the normal usage of the terms in the New Testament. The Greek term eis, here translated “for” (as in “…for repentance”) often has the meaning “in response to (cf. Mt. 12:41).
Luke 1: 76,77 “And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the …
Read MoreNovember 8, 2011 Category: Apologetics, Bible, Christian Living, Featured, Theology, Tough Questions No Comments
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