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Should Additional Gospels Have Been Included in Our Bibles?

“More than eighty gospels were considered for the New Testament, and yet only a relative few were chosen for inclusion—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John among them.” —Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, p. 231[1] “Fortunately for historians,” Teabing said, “some of the gospels that Constantine attempted to eradicate managed to survive. The Dead Sea Scrolls…

Science and the Bible – Are They Compatible?

What can skeptics learn about the Bible from science? Over the years at The John Ankerberg Show we have invited numerous skeptics and critics of the Bible to appear on TV and thus have had to read widely in the skeptical literature. Neither from the guests on our TV shows nor from our reading…

5 Historical Facts About Jesus That Will Never Change… Whether You Believe Them or Not!

1. Jesus existed. He was a real person who actually lived in history. No one doubts that. A. Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th edition, devotes 20,000 words to the person of Jesus Christ and never once hints that He didn’t exist. B. Non-Christian sources mention Jesus: Tacitus, a Roman historian (55-120 A.D.): “Christus (Christ),… suffered the extreme…

The Evidence for the Resurrection | From Skepticism to Belief | Pt. 1

Among the religions of the world, Christianity is unique in many ways. One area of uniqueness concerns the evidence supporting its basic claims. As lawyer, theologian, and philosopher Dr. John Warwick Montgomery points out, “The historic Christian claim differs qualitatively from the claims of all other world religions at the epistemological point: on the issue…

The Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ | From Skepticism to Belief | Part 2

In Part 1, we indicated that the historical evidence for the Resurrection of Christ was sufficient to convert even skeptics. In Part 2, we will examine what leading lawyers have concluded about the evidence for Christ’s Resurrection. In Acts 1:3, the historian Luke tells us that Jesus Christ was resurrected from the dead by…