Debunking Silly Statements About the Bible
Greg Gilbert One American tabloid recently said this about the Bible: "No television preacher has ever read the Bible. Neither has any evangelical politician. Neither has the pope. Neither have I. And neither have you. At best, we’ve all read a bad translation—a translation of translations of translations of hand-copied copies of copies of copies of copies, and on and on, hundreds of times." Is this true?
The Doctrine of Scripture: Defining Our Terms
Kevin Gardner If you don’t grasp what the Bible is and how it came to be, you’ll never fully grasp its meaning. Since the meaning of the Bible is vitally important to our faith and life, we will here briefly define a few key terms that relate to the doctrine of Scripture as the study of God’s Word written.
Four Gospels?
Nicholas Batzig As a young Christian, I remember wondering why it was that God chose to give us four Gospels rather than one. This is no illegitimately curious or superfluous question. It is one that we do well to consider. I have actually come to believe that there are many reasons why our God has given us four–rather than one–Gospel records. Here are three:
Why the Gospel of Jesus's Wife Fragment is a Forgery
Justin Taylor Brad Green, writing at Tyndale House in Cambridge: Much of the New Testament scholarly world is abuzz concerning a purportedly ancient Coptic fragment, which has been called The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife. Is it truly ancient? A forgery?