Why Did Jesus Have to Die on the Cross?
Why did Jesus have to die on the cross? This talk addresses 6 misconceptions about the cross and its significance.
Who was Jesus Christ? Did he really exist? Can we know what he did and taught? Explore the evidence that shows Jesus was a historical figure and find out why Christians believe he was fully man and fully God – and why it matters.
Why did Jesus have to die on the cross? This talk addresses 6 misconceptions about the cross and its significance.
This video examines the historical evidence for the life of Jesus, including discussion of the non-biblical evidence.
Explore why Jesus' death on the cross is central to understanding God’s love, justice, and forgiveness, challenging common misconceptions.
Is the idea that Jesus is both God and man confusing, unnecessary and wrong?
Do any other ancient documents help to confirm the trustworthiness of the New Testament?
Many people think Jesus was real, but that his followers exaggerated his identity. Here are three reasons why we can trust the biblical…
When the Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) come to your door, if you get into a conversation with them on who Jesus is, you can expect them to…
Who did Jesus really think he was? Did he actually claim to be God? And does it matter if he did?
Orthodox Christians believe that Jesus is the unique Son of God in human flesh. However, some unbelievers, who may or may not believe Jesus…
Who is Jesus? What did he claim? And how should we respond?
The October 2000 issue of The Atlantic Monthly featured a perceptive, and, to many, a surprising essay on the renewal of evangelical…
The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.
Can we be confident that we have the original text of the Gospels? How does it compare to other ancient documents?
In the book The Da Vinci Code the author Dan Brown poses a question and suggests an answer, in a discussion between the characters of…
The way the Gospel accounts use correct place names shows that they were based on reliable information from first hand testimony.
This video examines the historical evidence that Jesus performed miracles.
What historical evidence is there for the life of Jesus and the first Christians?
The atheist website infidels.org hosts a critique of Josh McDowell’s Evidence that Demands a Verdict. The article below responds to…
This talk looks at who Jesus is and examines some of the misunderstandings about him, as well as his impact in history and the impact he…
A review of Philip Pullman's The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ.
If your mother claims that you are an honest person, we may trust you that you will do what you say. Yet some reservation is understandable…
The doctrine of Christ's divinity is the central Christian doctrine, for it is like a skeleton key that opens all the others. Christians…
Are there any substantial grounds to deny that Jesus existed? This article responds to the main arguments.
A previous article addressed the question, ‘Does the Bible really attest to the deity of Jesus?’ by looking at several…
Who is Jesus? Who did he claim to be? What questions might we need to ask? What kind of evidence is there?
Although Jesus claimed to be the divine Son of God, His favorite self-designation by far was ‘Son of Man’. How do we know that…
What could a Christian say in response? Well, wisdom often leads us to follow a certain course of action over many other options. For…
Many people today doubt Jesus was a real person. Here are 8 ancient non-biblical sources that provide evidence of his existence.
Adrian Holloway tackles the question of whether we can trust what we read in the New Testament or should dismiss it as unsubstantiated myth.
Once we've got at the facts behind the myths about Jesus, this final video considers what difference he makes to us today.
Did Jesus claim or imply that he was anything more than a prophet? Or did his followers transform him into the Son of God many years later?
Can we know who wrote the Gospels? This video examines whether there is any evidence to support the traditional authors.
In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.
Were the Gospel accounts based on the testimony of eyewitnesses who were still alive when the Gospels were written?
How many hand-written copies of the Gospel accounts are there? What does this reveal about possible mistakes?
A response to the controversial claim that Jesus had a wife.
What does the oldest fragment of the New Testament tell us?
Is Christmas just a nice story 'for the children' or an historical fact that affects us all?
Dr John Dickson describes the key sources for our knowledge of the life of Jesus, assessing them from the perspective of an historian.
The Gospel writers portrayed Jesus as claiming to be the 'Son of God', but can history verify this and, if so, what did Jesus mean by it?
There are two elements in our title. Postmodernism and the uniqueness of Christ. What do we mean by them? What exactly is postmodernism?…
Is Jesus History? by Professor John Dickson explores how the life of Jesus and the claims of the Bible intersect with sources from the…
Why the so-called "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" is a modern forgery.
This talk explains why the claim that Jesus was no more than a moral teacher doesn't account for the evidence about him.
This video considers how long it took before Jesus's first followers came to believe that he was the Son of God.
Are the Gospels full of contradictions? What would have been seen as normal standards of trustworthy historical writing at that time?
Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?
Do the Gospels give us any indication that they are using eyewitness testimony? Richard Bauckham examines some of the minor characters in…
This video describes the discovery of the earliest copy of part of John's Gospel, the 'John Rylands Fragment'.
Were the Gospel accounts corrupted as they were passed on? Was there any way to prevent this happening?
How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…
This video considers whether we can dismiss the accounts of Jesus's life simply because they describe miracles.
There are many different views of Jesus. What's the truth?
Evidence in the Talmud for the crucifixion of Jesus.
In a talk given at The Veritas Forum at the University of California, Santa Barbara in October 2000, Professor Craig Blomberg discusses new…
The Scriptures tell us exactly who Jesus claimed to be and they clearly present Christ as God. The names applied to Christ in the New…
In this talk, Gary Habermas analyses the claims by James Cameron, in his Discovery Channel documentary 'The Lost Tomb of Jesus', that a…
This lecture was given by Professor William Lane Craig at Nottingham University as a part of UCCF's Reasonable Faith Tour. The lecture is…
The virgin birth of Jesus Christ perplexes many people. Why is it such an important belief?