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How to become a Judas
The story is told that, when Leonardo Da Vinci painted the Last Supper, he searched for thirteen models to portray each character in the painting. One day, he found a young man who exactly portrayed Jesus as he imagined him to be. The young man’s face exuded love,...
Vindicating Jesus?
“A Kenyan lawyer has filed a petition to overturn the 2,000-year-old trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ, arguing that the trial was unlawful and demanding that Israel and Italy be held responsible.”[1. Katherine Weber, “Lawyer Sues Israel, Italy and Pontius Pilate...
Who am I to judge?
One of the hottest topics on the current moral landscape in the West is the issue of homosexuality. Judeo-Christian values have always maintained that homosexuality is a sin against God. This has been challenged for a long time by a pluralistic society, and in recent...
The historical Jesus: The Gospel accounts
Samuel McComb helps us to understand the significance of the historical reliability of the gospels when he writes, Christianity is a historical religion. By this we mean not merely that it has entered into the history of the world, and that its career can be traced,...
The historical Jesus: The testimony of history
I have taken some time in previous posts to introduce the question of whether there is historical evidence for the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, and to deal with the question of first-century evidence (or the lack thereof) for his life. In short, mention of Jesus...
A gospel story older than the Gospels
An article that appeared on MyNews by Marcus Steenberg recently caught my attention. Steenberg asserts that “Jesus of Nazareth is none other than a fictional reincarnation of the much older Horus of Egypt.” He offers a long list of parallels between the Gospels and...