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Facts to show the Resurrection is not fiction, by William Lane Craig

Apologetically stolen from Apologetics 315

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Top Ten Myths About the Resurrection

This Easter Week, Credo House Ministries is presenting a new video each day on Ten Myths About the Resurrection, featuring Dr. Michael Licona. If yousubscribe to their newsletter, they will send one to your inbox every day. Check out the Credo House Vimeo Channel for Mike Licona’s presentation of all ten myths:

Myth 1: Contradictions in the Gospels
Myth 2: Pagan Parallels in the Mystery Religions
Myth 3: The Fraud Theory
Myth 4: Hallucinations
Myth 5: It’s a Matter of Faith
Myth 6: Apparent Death Theory
Myth 7: It Was Merely Legend
Myth 8: Science Proves that Resurrections Cannot Occur
Myth 9: Not Enough Evidence
Myth 10: Lost Gospels

If you find this information helpful, you’ll want to get the Case for the Resurrection of Jesus DVD with Mike Licona and Michael Patton. This is a two-disc set with 8 sessions.An excellent small group resource!

An Easy Way to Remember Evidence for the Trustworthiness of the Bible

This interesting website provides a succinct collection of useful evidences for Christianity:

Faith Facts is a great resource dealing with various apologetic topics. One of the resources they offer is a great acronym to help remember some of the evidence for the trustworthiness of the Bible.

The acronym is M.A.P.S.

M – Manuscript Evidence

A – Archaeological Evidence

P – Prophetic Evidence

S – Statistical Evidence

Easy Summary for Memorization

For more great resources, check out Faith Facts here.

H/T to truthbomb.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/easy-way-to-remember-evidence-of-bibles.html

Tim McGrew: NT Historian On Easter

10 minute MP3 interview: Tim McGrew: NT Historian On Easter

J. P. Moreland’s books are now all available on Kindle

J. P. Moreland’s books are now all available on Kindle.  Here is a list of the titles:

  • Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology
  • Body & Soul
  • Christianity and the Nature of Science
  • Consciousness and the Existence of God
  • God Conversation
  • In Search of a Confident Faith
  • Kingdom Triangle
  • Lost Virtue of Happiness
  • Love Your God with All Your Mind
  • Naturalism: A Critical Analysis
  • Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview
  • Scaling the Secular City
  • Smart Faith

From JP’s Amazon page:

J. P. Moreland is one of the leading evangelical thinkers of our day.

He is distinguished professor of philosophy at Talbot School of Theology and director of Eidos Christian Center.

With degrees in philosophy, theology, and chemistry, Dr. Moreland has taught theology and philosophy at several schools throughout the U.S.

He has authored or coauthored many books, including Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview; Christianity and the Nature of Science; Scaling the Secular City; Does God Exist?; The Lost Virtue of Happiness; and Body and Soul. He is coeditor of Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical Jesus. His work appears in publications such as Christianity Today, Faith and Philosophy, Philosophia Christi, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and The American Philosophical Quarterly.

Dr. Moreland served with Campus Crusade for ten years, planted two Campus Crusade works, planted two churches, and has spoken on over 200 college campuses and in hundreds of churches.

Totally great quote from Professor Dan Wallace

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Dan Wallace quote

Dan Wallace is a New Testament scholar and has debated ex-Evangelical scholar and best selling author Bart Ehrman.

2012 Online Apologetics Conference

Here is the page. The page from 2011 is here.

How Accurate is the Bible?

Four excellent talks on the accuracy of the Bible by Dr. Ken Boa here.

Ken Boa worldview picture

I love this picture from Ken Boa’s website and use it as a 1280×800 pixel background image on my laptop. The full size image is here:

www.christian-apologetics.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/YHWH.jpg

Dr. Ken Boa

I would like Ken to produce a really hi-res version of this image so that we can make a poster from it and stick it on the wall (hint hint…….).

And here is another one, this time from Tim Challies:

The Defense Never Rests: A Workbook for Budding Apologists

By William Lane Craig and Joseph Tang

William Lane Craig and Joseph Tang

Professor John Lennox — The Word of God in Creation MP3s

MP3 Part 1
MP3 Part 2
MP3 Part 3
MP3 Part 4

Research Professor Dr. Darrell Bock of DTS to visit New Zealand in July

Dr. Darrell Bock (DTS page, blog, Amazon) is

  • Research Professor of New Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary
  • Professor for Spiritual Development and Culture at Dallas Theological Seminary
  • Editor at Large for Christianity Today
  • Past President of the Evangelical Theological Society (2000-2001)
  • Author of over twenty books and is a New York Times Best Selling author

…and it tipped to be visiting New Zealand in July 2012. More to come…

(HT to Joe Fleener)

Thinking Matters Youth Conference coming to Auckland in February

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Thinking Matters Youth Conference

Dr. Craig Evans and Dr. Bart Ehrman debate Jesus

Religion Soup: Ehrman/Evans Debate, Night 1

Religion Soup: Ehrman/Evans Debate, Night 2

Thoughts: I think that Bart Ehrman’s criticisms of the historicity of the New Testament in the first video are fascinating. I applaud him for bringing the topics under discussion into the public arena in the form of these and other debates. Would the discussion have reached the public arena, and made it onto my computer screen if Dr. Ehrman had remained silent? Perhaps, but I suspect Ehrman’s works have forced Christian scholars such as Dr. Craig Evans and Dr. Dan Wallace and Dr. James White to address these issues face on, and this is of great benefit to those such as myself.

Other resources: Dr. Craig Blomberg has some really useful materials relating to these debates here:

thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justintaylor/2008/03/26/interview-with-craig-blomberg/

Lee Strobel: We’re on Cusp of Golden Era of Apologetics

A must-read for budding and established apologists here:

All of these trends have awakened a sleeping giant – Christian apologetics, or the defense of the faith. We’re seeing apologetics books on the New York Times bestsellers list. Schools like Biola University and its Talbot School of Theology, which are leaders in apologetics, are filled to capacity. Denver Seminary is launching a new degree in Christian Apologetics and Ethics this fall. One organization is seeking to place apologists on 500 college campuses in the next five years.