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The 2012 summer issue of the Southeastern Theological Review includes a roundtable discussion on the interpretation of Matthew’s raised...

At the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, I read a paper titled The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy...

Historians of Jesus have very often made use of the criteria of authenticity. That is, they grant more weight to those reported items...

Statement Regarding RZIM Senior Leadership Team Members Michael Ramsden, Sarah (Davis) Phillips [1] and Abdu Murray November 9, 2022 On...

A number of you have asked me to respond to Lydia McGrew’s lengthy critique of my book Why Are There Differences in the Gospels? What We Can Learn From Ancient Biography. Now that I’ve been able to complete some of my projects, I’ve had time to read McGrew’s book and will now respond. To begin, I want to explain what led me to the approach I’ve adopted. In the latter half of the 20th century, Read below.

Christian apologist Jonathan McLatchie recently sparked some controversy when on Facebook he posted a thread saying, “Modern Biblical scholarship is in dire need of a reformation. Case in point [McLatchie provides a link to a video conversation between agnostic New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman and Christian New Testament scholar Craig Evans].” In the video, Ehrman asks Evans if he thinks Jesus actually uttered the “I am . . .” statements in John’s Gospel. Evans answered that

August 22, 2016; Revised August 23, 2016 My next book is scheduled for release this December: Why Are There Differences in the Gospels:...

Bart D. Ehrman,  Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why The Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are  (San Francisco: HarperOne,...

This is a recent attempt by the hyperskeptical community to advance the thesis that Jesus never existed. In this review, Mike Licona...

Acharya S is a skeptic with an interest in mythology who has written a book entitled The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold....

The Qur'an asserts that Jesus never died. If he did not die, his death could not atone for sins and there could be no resurrection of Jesus from the dead. In this article, Mike argues that Jesus' death provides a strong defeater of Islam. Using the Death of Jesus to Refute Islam Michael R. Licona (June 24, 2010) This article originally appeared in  JISCA  2.1, pp. 87-110. Reprinted with permission. Prior to 9/11, few Americans thought about Islam. Since then, Muslims have mad

This is the paper I delivered at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society in San Francisco. This paper addresses the present controversy stated by Norman Geisler pertaining to the saints raised at Jesus’ death in Matthew 27:52-53. Read Below.

Michael Licona, Ph.D. One of my idiosyncrasies is that I'm a perpetual second-guesser. I seem to question just about everything. I don't want to make a bad decision, even in some very insignificant matters. So, it just makes sense that I often have doubts pertaining to decisions in significant matters. It's not an intentional exercise. In fact, it's downright frustrating to me. But it's the way I'm wired. As a result, I've doubted the truth of my Christian faith many times; s

Mike Licona (June 2, 2014)   Many of us have had the driving experience of moving along peacefully when we become startled by the sudden...

On April 9, 2006 National Geographic unveiled  The Gospel of Judas.  Here are a few succinct thoughts from Mike. This past April, the...

We have all either asked the question or have been asked it: Who Made God? Everything we know of has a beginning and was caused to exist...

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 leave a tract with you titled, "Should You Believe in the Trinity?"(1) At first look the tract seems well researched. It is when one begins to look more closely at it that it becomes obvious that the Watchtower is misleading its own followers and readers of the tract. In some places, the misleading appears intentional. In others, it is unclear

"[Julius] Caesar also put on a gladiatorial show, but had collected so immense a troop of combatants that his terrified political...

"The Intrinsic Flaws Inherent in Christianity" is a short essay that is a collection of four standard objections to Christianity: 1. Based on these, the essayist concludes that Christianity is "a fundamentally flawed religion." We'll look at each of these arguments, considering both the particulars as well as the logic behind them. We'll refer to the essayist as  Sam the Skeptic . All Rights Reserved. No reproduction of any kind permissible without the expressed written conse

Someday it will happen to you. You are about to sit down for a late breakfast on a Saturdaymorning. The french toast smells delicious! A...