Even modern Christian scholars reject the so-called Old Testament proof texts about Jesus. Just check most modern Christian Bible commentaries and translations. Those “Christian” scholars who reject the so-called proof texts to which you refer…
Isaiah 53 cannot refer to Jesus because it says no one was interested in the servant of the Lord or attracted to him, yet the New Testament records that large crowds followed Jesus. Actually, the…
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 their spiritual pilgrimage been seriously disturbed by the statement “Such-and-such…
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 four Gospels, of course, are not letters; neither are the…
Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: The Possibility of Systematic Theology D. A. Carson STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM One might well ask, in the contemporary climate of academic theology, why a student whose prime…
How Can One God Be Three? Speaking through the prophet Isaiah, God said, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, / Nor are your ways My ways … / For as the heavens are higher than…
Handling an Objection: “I love the moral teachings of Jesus but I don’t think He is divine.” This past week I was doing some outreach on a major college campus. When it came time to…
Using Inference to the Best Explantion: What Caused the Birth of Christology? Anyone who studies historical method is familiar with what is called historical causation. Historians seek out the causes of a certain events. As…
Does the New Testament Misquote the Old Testament? by Paul Copan [gview file=”http://www.difa3iat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Does-the-New-Testament-Misquote-the-Old-Testament.pdf” save=”0″] Perhaps you’ve wondered why New Testament (NT) writers appear to take Old Testament (OT) verses out of context to make them…
