Is the New Testament (NT) reliable? (Part I: The reliability of the manuscripts)4 min read

NT critic Bart Ehrman claims that the manuscripts we have today don’t represent the original writings, but in fact are error-ridden copies that cannot be trusted. The number of variations among these manuscripts even exceed the number of words in the NT in its original Greek language. He suggests that there are about 400,000 variations in the manuscripts we have and about 138,200 words…

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Were The Gospels Written By Anonymous Authors?5 min read

Bart Ehrman, a famous New Testament scholar, claims that the four canonical Gospels were written anonymously, and were later falsely attributed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, a century after they had been written. In his book, “Forged: Writing in the name of God, Why the Bible's authors are not who we think they are”, he builds a story for why these names were…

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Has Evolution Been Observed?3 min read

The theory of evolution asserts that all living organisms are related, they descended from common ancestor(s), and the variations are explained by natural processes such as natural selection and genetic mutations. Scientists cite several evidences for evolution such as:  Comparative anatomy: the study of differences and similarities between living things  Embryology and development: how creatures develop before being born or hatching from an egg …

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Evolution Vs. Intelligent Design, Which Is More Reasonable?1 min read

When Darwin proposed the idea that all living creatures evolved by natural selection, he wasn’t aware of the structure of the DNA as it was discovered later. The DNA carries the genetic information of the living organism and is responsible for the fundamental and distinctive characteristics of the organism. Bill Gates describes the DNA as “a computer program but far, far more advanced than…

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