More Miracles On Video
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by Jason Engwer
2d ago
I wrote a post on the topic a few years ago. As the Ted Serios case discussed there illustrates, we've had video footage of miracles for a long time. I occasionally come across more examples. Elsewhere, I've discussed the UFO videos released to the public in recent years. Stephen Braude recently did another interview with Jeffrey Mishlove, which addresses some of the paranormal cases Braude has investigated. In the interview, he discusses some recent table levitations captured on video. Go here to watch an earlier interview with Mishlove that showed some photographs and video of table levitat ..read more
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Paul's Familiarity With The Other Resurrection Witnesses
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by Jason Engwer
4d ago
Last year, I wrote about the significance of the details mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15:6 regarding the appearance to more than five hundred. Something else worth noting is that Paul's comments elsewhere corroborate the idea that he was closely following the lives of the other resurrection witnesses. Think of his comments in Galatians 1-2 about visiting other apostles, spending a lot of time with them, and coordinating his efforts with theirs. Or his discussion of the sufferings of the apostles in 1 Corinthians 4:9-13. Or his discussion of the practices of the apostles when traveling in 1 Corin ..read more
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Why don't the gospels have Jesus anticipating Paul?
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by Jason Engwer
6d ago
It's often suggested that later Christians attributed words and actions to Jesus that advanced their later theology, preferences, and so on. The Jesus of the gospels is at least largely a fabrication of later Christianity. There are a lot of ways to respond to that sort of claim. What I want to focus on here is a counterexample that doesn't get as much attention as it should. The Jesus of the gospels doesn't anticipate Paul. He doesn't address the controversies surrounding his apostleship, his not having been with Jesus "from the beginning" (John 15:27; see, also, Acts 1:21-22), etc. We don't ..read more
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How To Read The Church Fathers
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by Jason Engwer
1w ago
The Other Paul recently posted a video that makes some good points on the subject ..read more
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How The Author's Travels Support The Authorship Attribution Of Luke/Acts
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by Jason Engwer
2w ago
I've written before about how Acts ends with a "we" passage that places the author in Rome and how some of the earliest evidence we have for Lukan authorship comes from sources closely connected to that city. Something else to note about the authorship of Luke and Acts is that multiple sources in multiple locations should have been in a good position to know who wrote the documents. The "we" passages in Acts, which suggest participation by the author in the events in question, are evidence that the author traveled widely. And he apparently was writing Acts as he traveled, doing preparatory wor ..read more
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The Number Of Resurrection Experiences Peter Had
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by Jason Engwer
2w ago
The numbers are significant for other individuals as well, but I want to focus on Peter here as an example. He probably was part of at least three of the appearances mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15:5-8, and there's a good chance that he was part of four of them. For a discussion of the potential for his participation in the appearance to more than five hundred in 1 Corinthians 15:6, see here. He also witnessed the appearances in John 21 and Acts 1. And he's reported to have witnessed the empty tomb and the condition of Jesus' grave coverings at the time (Luke 24:12, John 20:3-7). Such a large n ..read more
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Evidence Of How Psalm 22:16 Should Be Rendered
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by Jason Engwer
3w ago
Michael Flowers has produced a series of videos on Psalm 22:16, in which he makes a lot of significant points about the passage. He's also published an article discussing thirteen proposed renderings of the passage and assessing their strengths and weaknesses. Notice how easily most of the proposed readings can be reconciled with crucifixion. The traditional Christian view involving digging, boring through, or piercing is supported by the earliest versions of Psalm 22 that we have. As Flowers notes, "In an article from 1897 Henri LesĂȘtre observed that although Justin Martyr quotes Ps 22 for hi ..read more
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How To Approach Easter Prophecy
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by Jason Engwer
3w ago
Issues of prophecy fulfillment often come up in the context of Easter. I want to make a few points about how to best handle the situation. You have to prioritize. Some prophecies are more evidential than others. And some are of such a nature that they work well even when responding to more extreme forms of skepticism, such as agnosticism or skepticism about Jesus' existence. Prophecy, including Messianic prophecy, involves more than an individual. It also involves a context surrounding that individual: the penal practices anticipated in Psalm 22, the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple in ..read more
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Easter Resources 2024
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by Jason Engwer
3w ago
A few years ago, I wrote a short post about which evidence for Jesus' resurrection we should focus on the most. And Steve Hays wrote a lengthier article suggesting how to make a case for the resurrection. Here are some examples of the Easter issues we've addressed over the years: The Witnesses' Willingness To Suffer For Belief In Jesus' Resurrection Did the resurrection accounts develop in a suspicious way? Evidence That The Risen Jesus Was Heard And Touched, Not Just Seen, Including In 1 Corinthians 15 The Gospels And Acts' Polymodal Resurrection Accounts Corroborated In The New Testament L ..read more
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Skeptics Being Evasive About Recent Miracles
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by Jason Engwer
1M ago
Critics of the supernatural often object to paranormal claims that occurred in the more distant past, since there's no ability to question the witnesses, consult the larger number of records that tend to be available with more recent events, etc. But they often provide poor responses to the evidence we do have for those more distant events, which raises questions like how much these skeptics actually need the larger amount of evidence they're asking for and how sincere their objections are. Another way of addressing the line of objections I'm focused on here is to look at how these skeptics h ..read more
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