Did The Story of Jesus Change By The Time The Gospels Were Written?5 min read

Have you ever played Telephone? You know, the game in which one person whispers a sentence to someone else, that person whispers what she or he hears to the next person in the circle, and so on? At the end, the first person and the last person reveal their sentences,  and everyone laughs at how much the sentence changed between the first and last…

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Were the Catholic Epistles of Peter, James and John Forged?2 min read

New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman argues for the illiteracy of Peter, James and Jude, that would disable them to compose such lengthy, well-reasoned Greek texts, namely, the Catholic Epistles. For him, James was a later book that is intended to correct the misinterpretation of Pauline Epistles.  Fr. Malaty sees that it is not excluded that Peter had some Greek knowledge as noticed that Andrew,…

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

To judge the reliability of the biblical story, scholars apply the criteria of authenticity to the biblical accounts. The criteria of authenticity represent standards or tools by which the historical plausibility of an event is assessed. So let’s discuss 3 of these criteria and apply them to the biblical story  1. The criterion of multiple attestation: the criterion states that if an event or…

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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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