New Testament

Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit (2 Peter 1:20-21). With the New Testament inspired by Creator God, we should expect it […]

We preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles (1 Corinthians 1:23, ESV). I want to introduce three non-Biblical and non-Christian friends from the first century — Josephus, Tacitus, and Pliny the Younger! These three men are Reason #8 for the Reliability of the New Testament. Why am I interested in

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways (Romans 11:33, ESV)! Studying the reliability of Scripture, we quickly discover topics such as inspiration, archaeological evidence, and the copious amount of early New Testament manuscripts compared with other ancient documents.   But there

And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them, so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel

The Apostle Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 15:3 (ESV), “For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received…” How many of us, having read 1 Corinthians, have thought, “What does the Apostle Paul say is ‘of first importance,’ not second place, not top three, or something that sooner or later we

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God (Romans 1:1, ESV). In the book “Trustworthy,” the author Benjamin Shaw writes… It is an incredible fact that within the New Testament, we have the writings of someone who persecuted the church. His name is Paul, and he aggressively and violently

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach (Acts 1:1). The teachings, actions, and miracles of Christ defy our fleshly imagination. Hearing of someone turning water into wine, walking on water, healing the blind, and finally a resurrection sounds more like mythology than history. The

Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written (John 21:25, ESV). I’ve been writing every Friday about reasons to know that the New Testament is reliable. (See Interruptions #1858 and #1864 for

I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you (Psalm 119:11, ESV). Experts do not work with the original manuscripts of the New Testament; they work with copies.   When considering the reliability of any book in antiquity, scholars consider two things: first, it’s preferable to have many manuscripts for

These are written so that you may continue to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing in him you will have life by the power of his name (John 20:31, NLT). After writing 1699 Interruptions, which contain the same total number of words as in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord