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Ed Blanch on Jesus

2012-07-20T13:45:19-04:00July 20th, 2012|Categories: Ed Blanch|Tags: , , , |

Guest blogger Ed Blanch writes for knotRED– the Intercollegiate Marxist Review. An activist with the Occupy Chick-Fil-A movement, he is also a member of Citizens for Rap Music. He comments regularly on the PETA website and blogs at There’s No Sky Fairy. Ed is a sophomore at North Jersey College of Technology majoring in media studies. It was [...]

How Do we Know the Gospels are Historical?

2012-07-19T09:19:25-04:00July 19th, 2012|Categories: Apologetics|Tags: , , |

It is easy to exchange convinced assertions: "The gospels are 100% God's holy Word and every bit is historically accurate!" or "The gospels are fairy tales!" However there is a discipline called "Biblical scholarship" in which scholars do some very interesting work determining just which parts of the gospels they think are reliable and which they [...]

What Do Historians Think of the Gospels?

2012-07-18T06:21:43-04:00July 18th, 2012|Categories: Apologetics|Tags: , , |

Are the gospels reliable as historical accounts? In an earlier post I wrote that the gospels are unique ancient documents. They are not written primarily as historical accounts by professional historians. Instead they are the collected stories, memories and experiences of the community of Jesus Christ's disciples. Therefore we treat them as the documents they are: [...]

Mary Queen of Heaven: The Bible Tells Me So

2012-05-11T07:30:49-04:00May 11th, 2012|Categories: Apologetics|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Calling Mary the "Queen of Heaven" seems to most non-Catholics a title too far. How can the simple girl from Nazareth be "Queen of Heaven"? Isn't that a pagan term? In fact, isn't the "Queen of Heaven" actually condemned in the Bible? In Jeremiah 44 the Hebrews are blamed for turning back to false gods and [...]

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