The Gospel of Peter is a pseudepigraphal (noncanonical and unauthentic) manuscript that claims to be written by the Apostle Peter. The earliest surviving manuscript dates from the 8th or 9th century. It contains 60 verses and covers events at the end of Jesus’ life. However, the original is thought to have been written c. AD 150, meaning it could not have been written by…

Sceptics use the time gap between the original writing of the New Testament and the age of the manuscript copies as reason enough to dismiss the authenticity and accuracy of what we have today. The oldest copies of the New Testament are dated as being written in the 2nd century. Let’s look at why the New Testament should be trusted as truthful and reliable.…

In popular history, the earliest known canon of Old Testament books is the Septuagint. The Septuagint was translated from Hebrew to Greek by seventy (hence Septuagint, commonly abbreviated LXX) scholars for Alexander's Great Library in Egypt around the year 300 BC. Supposedly, the scholars were commissioned by Alexander the Great to collect the writings of all the major religions of the time. The Septuagint contains the Old Testament books shared…

The three synoptic gospels each detail the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist, in Matthew 3:13-17, Mark 1:9-11, and Luke 3:21-22. Both Matthew and Mark record that Jesus was led into the wilderness to be tested in their very next verses (Matt. 4:1; Mark 1:12). In the gospel written by Luke, he first gives a genealogy of Jesus right after He was baptised,…