The Seven Last Words of Jesus from the Cross (feat. Fleming Rutledge and Bruce Metzger) (March 7, 2019)

In the four gospels, Jesus spoke seven sayings from the cross. One saying is repeated in two gospels, and another saying was inserted by scribes. I've compiled all the last words in these verses (Mark 15:34; Matthew 27:46; Luke 23:34; Luke 23:43; Luke 23:46; John 19:26–27; John 19:28; John 19:30) into […]

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Test the SCRIPTURES to see whether they are from God (feat. Ernst Käsemann) (July 31, 2018)

Ernst Käsemann argues that the New Testament scriptures have been subject to biblical criticism from their very beginning, and even the New Testament writers criticize each other, disagree with each other and contradict each other. In Käsemann's essay "Is the Gospel Objective?" in his Essays on New Testament Themes, he argues […]

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Karl Barth on the Historicity of the Resurrection (May 20, 2015)

The Passion Narratives are notoriously difficult to harmonize, and despite ingenious solutions, there remains to be discovered a satisfactory harmonization of the events. A natural conclusion is that these conflicting narratives are not intended to be harmonized.  These conflicting narratives should not be smoothed out in the same way that […]

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