I’ve been hearing this question a lot recently. It’s an old thought, this idea that all roads lead to God, but I suspect that The Shack movie has given it new life recently, with its implicit universalism. (For the record, I’m not an anti-Shackian…it had some excellent insights into God’s nature that are perfectly biblical.…
Anyone who has read the Bible with serious intent to understand it will almost certainly have come across the occasional strange annotation, often in a footnote, that says something like “Many manuscripts…” or “the earliest manuscripts and many others…”, followed by a reading that differs a bit from what’s in the body of the text.…
Several news outlets are reporting that biblical scholars Craig Evans and Daniel Wallace are working with a team that may have uncovered the earliest known copy of the Gospel of Mark. You can see full articles with all the details here and here. In short, this fragment of the Gospel of Mark has been found in a paper mache…
In the past few years, interest in the Book of Enoch (also called Enoch and 1 Enoch) has experienced something of a revival. It is referenced in numerous popular fiction works that make use of the Nephilim and is even quoted in what appears to be an authoritative way by some supposedly Christian teachers like…
Note: Shepherd Project does not endorse the worldview or assumptions present in the following resources. They are presented here because the evidence they refer to supports the historical reliability of the Genesis account of the Flood. The fact that these predominantly secular – and in some cases even anti-Christian – organizations acknowledge this evidence is…
If you haven’t already heard, you probably will soon: a recent archaeological find in Israel has sparked a new round of attacks on the historical reliability of the Bible. In short, Dr. Erez Ben-Yosef and Dr. Lidar Sapir-Hen, of Tel Aviv University have recently released the findings of their study of the Aravah Valley (on…
[box_dark]The question of whether or not the Gospels can be trusted to present an accurate view of Jesus’ life, teaching and deeds comes up all the time in our culture. What follows is a presentation of some of the key evidence that needs to be considered by any skeptic really interested in engaging this topic. …
[button link=”http://www.podcastrevolution.com/viewpodcast.php?pid=2823″ variation=”sky”]Listen via Podcast[/button] As August draws to a close, millions of young men and women are headed off (or back) to college where they will, hopefully, have their horizons expanded and their minds sharpened. Unfortunately, for those Christians among them, college will also likely be a place where their faith is tested. Now,…
Ok, that sounds like the beginning of a cheesy joke, but the truth is no laughing matter. The recently revealed “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife”, as some media outlets took to calling it, is yet another example of modern skepticism about the reliability of the canonical Gospels. It’s hard to get anyone to pay attention to…
In 2002, a remarkable find was announced to the world: an ossuary or bone-box with the Aramaic inscription translating to “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus.” Given that the box itself dates back 2000 years and that it was very unusual to put a brother’s name on a funerary inscription unless the brother was…