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 [...]
Bart Ehrman claims that all but 8 of the 27 books and letters of the New Testament were not written by their traditional authors. Mike Licona answers. This segment is an edited version of a [...]
Thank you for emailing me your brief rebuttal to my paper on your book. I have also reviewed “A Rebuttal to Mike Licona’s ‘Refutation of The Christ Conspiracy‘” on [...]
“In my vision, there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven.” Although Jesus claimed to be the divine Son of God, His favorite self-designation by far [...]
Anyone who reads the Gospels carefully will notice that there are differences in the manner in which they report the same events. These differences have led many conservative Christians to resort [...]
Updated 12 October 2016 Education Ph.D. in New Testament Studies, University of Pretoria (2009), completed with distinction and the highest mark (External Reader: Richard Hays, Duke; dissertation [...]
The movie “Risen” that many of us have anticipated is now showing in theaters. I just watched it with my wife, daughter, and son-in-law. I’m not going to spoil the movie for others by getting [...]
"And they all said, 'Are You the Son of God, then?' And He said to them, 'Yes, I am.'" (Luke 22:70) Although the Gospel writers portrayed Jesus as claiming to be the Son of God, can we verify [...]
On February 26, 2007, a team announced that they have discovered the family tomb of Jesus. In this article, Mike offers some preliminary thoughts.
"I just think that God let's us come to Him in our own way. He does not require us to believe in the Christian God, the Muslim God, or any specific God. So when you to say that unless I believe [...]
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' [...]
Mike Licona (June 2, 2014) Many of us have had the driving experience of moving along peacefully when we become startled by the sudden appearance of flashing blue lights in our [...]
August 22, 2016; Revised August 23, 2016 My next book is scheduled for release this December: Why Are There Differences in the Gospels: What We Can Learn from Ancient Biography (New York: Oxford [...]
"'We are not stoning you for any of these [miracles],' replied the Jews, 'but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.'" (John 10:33) Although Jesus claimed to be the divine Son [...]
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 [...]
“An Assessment of the Present State of Historical Jesus Research” is a popular level summary in a chapter included in a book by Sean McDowell, A New Kind of Apologist (Eugene, OR: Harvest House [...]
While the hard sciences of mathematics, physics, and astronomy have been growing in the number of scientists who embrace belief in a personal God of some sort, the complex sciences of biology and [...]
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 [...]
