Reason 61 / 4
His own brothers did not believe.
5For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
John 7:5 (WEB) · context
Two sceptics changed sides
Reason 61 / 4
5For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
John 7:5 (WEB) · context
Two sceptics changed sides
Reason 62 / 4
7Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles,
1 Corinthians 15:7 (WEB) · context
Two sceptics changed sides
Reason 63 / 4
13For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God and ravaged it.
Galatians 1:13 (WEB) · context
Two sceptics changed sides
Reason 64 / 4
3As he traveled, he got close to Damascus, and suddenly a light from the sky shone around him. 4He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” 5He said, “Who are you, Lord?” The Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
Acts 9:3-5 (WEB) · context
Two sceptics changed sides
Reason 71 / 3
1Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, 2even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word delivered them to us, 3it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;
Luke 1:1-3 (WEB) · context
The Gospels are rooted in eyewitness testimony
Reason 72 / 3
16For we didn’t follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2 Peter 1:16 (WEB) · context
The Gospels are rooted in eyewitness testimony
Reason 73 / 3
1That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life 2(and the life was revealed, and we have seen, and testify, and declare to you the life, the eternal life, which was with the Father, and was revealed to us); 3that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:1-3 (WEB) · context
The Gospels are rooted in eyewitness testimony
Reason 81 / 4
35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Matthew 24:35 (WEB) · context
We can know what the New Testament first said
Reason 82 / 4
The official list is kept by the Institute for New Testament Textual Research in Münster.
We can know what the New Testament first said
Reason 83 / 4
Tacitus' Annals 1-6, for example, survive in essentially one medieval manuscript.
We can know what the New Testament first said
Reason 84 / 4
8The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
Isaiah 40:8 (WEB) · context
We can know what the New Testament first said
Reason 91 / 4
5But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5 (WEB) · context
The Messiah was described centuries before
Reason 92 / 4
2But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
Micah 5:2 (WEB) · context
The Messiah was described centuries before
Reason 93 / 4
6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:6 (WEB) · context
The Messiah was described centuries before
Reason 94 / 4
44He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms concerning me must be fulfilled.”
Luke 24:44 (WEB) · context
The Messiah was described centuries before
Reason 101 / 4
1Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
Luke 3:1 (WEB) · context
Archaeology keeps confirming the setting
Reason 102 / 4
The Pilate Stone, Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Archaeology keeps confirming the setting
Reason 103 / 4
7and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
John 9:7 (WEB) · context
Archaeology keeps confirming the setting
Reason 104 / 4
Excavated by Eli Shukron and Ronny Reich.
Archaeology keeps confirming the setting
Reason 111 / 4
1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1 (WEB) · context
The universe had a beginning
Reason 112 / 4
3By faith we understand that the universe has been framed by the word of God, so that what is seen has not been made out of things which are visible.
Hebrews 11:3 (WEB) · context
The universe had a beginning
Reason 113 / 4
Planck Collaboration, 2018 results.
The universe had a beginning
Reason 114 / 4
20For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.
Romans 1:20 (WEB) · context
The universe had a beginning
Reason 121 / 3
1The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.
Psalms 19:1 (WEB) · context
A universe tuned for life
Reason 122 / 3
18For Yahweh who created the heavens, the God who formed the earth and made it, who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited says: “I am Yahweh. There is no other.
Isaiah 45:18 (WEB) · context
A universe tuned for life
Reason 123 / 3
See Martin Rees, Just Six Numbers (1999), and Luke Barnes and Geraint Lewis, A Fortunate Universe (2016).
A universe tuned for life
Reason 131 / 4
14(for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, 15in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them)
Romans 2:14-15 (WEB) · context
Right and wrong are real
Reason 132 / 4
8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:8 (WEB) · context
Right and wrong are real
Reason 133 / 4
Mere Christianity (1952), Book 1: Right and Wrong as a Clue to the Meaning of the Universe.
Right and wrong are real
Reason 134 / 4
23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:23 (WEB) · context
Right and wrong are real
Objections answered1 / 3
1How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
Psalms 13:1-2 (WEB) · context
If God is good, why is there so much suffering?
Objections answered2 / 3
3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
Isaiah 53:3 (WEB) · context
If God is good, why is there so much suffering?
Objections answered3 / 3
4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain any more. The first things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:4 (WEB) · context
If God is good, why is there so much suffering?
Objections answered1 / 2
2Yahweh’s works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.
Psalms 111:2 (WEB) · context
Hasn't science disproved God?
Objections answered2 / 2
25Yahweh says: “If my covenant of day and night fails, if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth,
Jeremiah 33:25 (WEB) · context
Hasn't science disproved God?
Objections answered1 / 2
11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
Acts 17:11 (WEB) · context
Isn't the Bible full of contradictions?
Objections answered2 / 2
Independent accounts differ in detail. That is a mark of genuine testimony, not of invention.
Isn't the Bible full of contradictions?
Objections answered1 / 2
21For no prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
2 Peter 1:21 (WEB) · context
Wasn't the Bible just written by men?
Objections answered2 / 2
16Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:16 (WEB) · context
Wasn't the Bible just written by men?