The Church Fathers and the Holy Scripture Geoffrey W. Bromiley THE FACT OF SCRIPTURE THE OLD TESTAMENT The early church arose in a situation in…
The Truth of Scripture and the Problem of Historical Relativity Philip Edgcumbe Hughes The Bible is a collection of documents belonging to a period of…
The New Testament Use of the Old Testament: Text Form and Authority Moisés Silva Most Christians, I suspect, have at some point or another in…
Redaction Criticism: On the Legitimacy and Illegitimacy of a Literary Tool D. A. Carson INTRODUCTION A British journal recently published a short series of articles…
On the Form, Function, and Authority of the New Testament Letters Richard N. Longenecker Of the twenty-seven New Testament writings, twenty-one are letters. The…
Isaiah 53 speaks of the people of Israel, not Jesus (or any Messiah). It is impossible, both contextually and logically, for Isaiah 53 to be…
If you want to know what Isaiah 53 is talking about, just read Isaiah 52 and 54. The context is the return of the Jewish…
Isaiah 7:14 does not prophesy a virgin birth! And it has nothing whatsoever to do with Jesus, since it dealt with a crisis seven hundred…
Isaiah 9:6 does not speak of a divine king (or Messiah).
Nowhere in the Hebrew Bible are we told that we must “believe in the Messiah.” This is hardly an accurate statement, and it is not…