I was watching one of your videos maybe like a month ago, and you were dialoguing with someone, I forget who, but you were talking a little bit about the absence of testimony about Jesus in ancient non-Christian sources. So non-Christian sources written,...
(He does not note that ancient historians were often themselves eyewitnesses of what they report, e.g., 'Ihucydides and Polybius.) Keener is a respected evangelical scholar, one informed by modern exegetical writers. The Historical Jesus of the Gospels They suggest the value of a modern theate...
especially complicated by John's report of the spear wound in his chest.(5) On Saturday, Jesus' body was removed from the tomb, after which he regained consciousness briefly, but died shortly thereafter and was reburied.(6)
The fate of the Ark of the Covenant, which was housed in the First Temple is unknown. Some ancient writers said that the ark was brought back to Babylon, while others suggested that it was hidden away. In the millennia after the destruction of the First Temple, a number of stories were ...
the Chosen One, another Jedi knight says, “You refer to the prophecy of the One who will bring balance to the Force,” but we never learn who prophesied and when. The prophecy echoes the Gospels’ repeatedly stated thesis that certain passages in the Hebrew Bible foretell Jesus’s coming....
None of these people who wrote this stuff down had ever met a Norse pagan, because there simply weren’t any left. They were gone. Christianization had taken full hold. So the two main parts of Snorri’s Edda are the Gylfaginning, which is the beginning, and then the Skáldskaparmál...
Wrote Irenaeus in the second century: Christ did not come for the sole benefit of those who believed in him at the time of Tiberius Caesar, nor has the Father a plan for those only who happen to be living today; but it is for all the human family (propter omnes omnino homines) who...
However,World War Ibrought a flood of new poetry by soldiers who wrote from the trenches. Enormous in scope, the global conflict stirred a tidal wave of patriotism and an unprecedented call to arms.Talented and well-read young people from all walks of life went to the front lines. ...
Saint John, who was then the last living Apostle and whose time on earth was running out, gives the Church both of his day and for all time this stark warning in his second Epistle: For many seducers are gone out into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the ...
Confirming this in a letter delivered to theSecond American Conventionshe wrote: “Your great country which I love for its noble freedom . . . and of which country I myself am proud of being a citizen.” This loving understanding of the American culture and temperament in the light of the...