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The High-Water Mark of Historical Apologetics: William Paley’s Elevenfold Case for the Authenticity of the Gospels
Picture a priceless heirloom—passed, quoted, copied, even attacked, yet never doubted. William Paley argued that early citation, public reading, wide acceptance—even by critics—show the Gospels preserve the original apostolic message. They are not late inventions, but Christianity’s authentic foundation.

Stuart McEwing
4 days ago7 min read


How Bayesian Probability Theorem helps show the reality of miracles?
Showing that extraordinary claims do not require extraordinary evidence with Bayes Probability Theorem.

Stuart McEwing
4 days ago3 min read


Acts on Trial: Is It History, or a Second-Century Reinvention?
Acts does not read like a distant reconstruction, but like a narrative with its hands in the soil—full of place, movement, and memory. The f

Stuart McEwing
4 days ago5 min read


From Chains to Soil: How Serfdom Replaced Slavery—and Why That Matters
From the collapse of Rome to the rise of medieval Europe, slavery did not vanish—it transformed. Bound to land rather than owned as property, serfs lived constrained yet recognisably human lives. This shift reveals not abolition, but a moral turning, where Christian ideas quietly reshaped how people could be treated.

Stuart McEwing
7 days ago6 min read


Excavating the Evidence: Why the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ Is Better Attested Than Caesar crossing the Rubicon
Many assume there’s little evidence for Jesus—but the opposite is true. When examined like geological strata, the evidence for his crucifixion runs deeper and more continuous than that for Caesar crossing the Rubicon. From hostile Roman and Jewish sources to early creeds within years of the event, the historical foundation is surprisingly strong.

Stuart McEwing
Apr 46 min read


What is the Evidence for the Empty Tomb?
At the heart of the resurrection debate lies a simple but stubborn claim: the tomb was empty. Not proven by modern standards, but grounded in early, multiple sources, it resists easy dismissal. The question is not whether we have evidence, but what that evidence, carefully weighed, is best understood to mean.

Stuart McEwing
Apr 45 min read


The Silence of Names: Protective Anonymity and the Earliest Christian Memory
In the earliest Gospel, a man draws a sword during Jesus’ arrest and slices off a servant’s ear. Mark leaves him unnamed. John later names him: Simon Peter. Why the silence? And what does this reveal about the New Testament we read?

Stuart McEwing
Mar 275 min read


Why the “Abolitionist vs. Slaveholder” Argument Against the Bible Doesn’t Actually Work
The popular “Abolitionist vs. Slaveholder” objection claims the Bible can’t be trusted because both sides used it. At first it sounds devastating—same book, opposite conclusions. But its not that simple. This article lays out the issue and moves toward a solution by clarifying hermeneutical principles and resisting interpretive relativism.

Stuart McEwing
Mar 265 min read


Miracles, Method, and Bias: Rethinking ‘Conservative’ Biblical Scholarship
Critics say conservative scholars selectively accept miracles, but this confuses bias with discernment. Historical method weighs evidence—early sources, multiple attestations, coherence—not all claims equally. Openness to the supernatural isn’t gullibility; it’s refusing to rule it out while judging carefully. The real divide isn’t bias vs neutrality, but which framework best explains the evidence.

Stuart McEwing
Mar 234 min read


Presupposition Before Proof: Van Til, Clark, and the Foundations of Christian Thinking
The apologetic method of Presuppositionism explained.

Stuart McEwing
Mar 237 min read


Understanding Numbers 31:17 — War, Justice, and the Fate of the Midianite Women
Few passages in the Old Testament provoke stronger reactions than Numbers 31:17. In this verse Moses commands the Israelite soldiers to kill the Midianite boys and the non-virgin women while sparing the young girls who had not slept with a man.

Stuart McEwing
Mar 164 min read


Mithras and Jesus: Why the “Borrowed Pagan Myth” Theory Collapses Under Historical Scrutiny
Few claims circulate more confidently in atheist internet sub-culture than this one: Christianity copied its ideas from the pagan mystery religion of Mithraism. This is about why the “Borrowed Pagan Myth” Theory Collapses Under Historical Scrutiny about Mithras.

Stuart McEwing
Jan 317 min read


Was Jesus Borrowed from Pagan Religions?
Few claims circulate more confidently online than this one: Christianity didn’t invent anything new. Jesus was stitched together from earlier pagan gods — a patchwork messiah copied from Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern religions. It sounds bold. It sounds informed. And it is almost entirely wrong. Here's why.

Stuart McEwing
Jan 315 min read


Does the Bible endorse slavery? Leviticus 25:44–46
Leviticus 25:44–46 is widely misunderstood because it is read through a modern, flat, and literal lens rather than within its ancient historical, social, and theological context. Critics often assume that the passage straightforwardly endorses slavery as a moral good. The post contends that this assumption collapses once the text is read in its historical context, in particular, as law meant to regulate an already-existing institution.

Stuart McEwing
Jan 114 min read


What is Christianity's greatest moral advance?
The greatest moral advance Christianity introduced is this: that every human being has equal, inviolable moral worth grounded in what they are, not in what they do, contribute, or survive.

Stuart McEwing
Jan 82 min read


Is the Gospel Hidden in Genesis 5?
Genesis 5 is often dismissed as a list of names and lifespans—or claimed to hide a secret gospel code. This article corrects popular misunderstandings while showing why the genealogy truly matters. Drawing on Hebrew, Jewish tradition, and respected biblical scholarship, it argues that Genesis 5 does not encode the gospel in letters, but prepares it through a powerful narrative of death, divine patience, judgment, and hope—ultimately fulfilled in Christ.

Stuart McEwing
Jan 15 min read


Is there encoded in Matthew’s Genealogy of Jesus a dense, letter-level, mathematically interlocking heptadic system that proves divine inspiration? Part 2
Part 2 asks whether Ivan Panin’s numerical theory could be rescued by more “charitable” ways of counting the Greek text. Proposals such as treating “Jesus Christ” as a single name, grouping repeated words, ignoring small grammatical particles, or counting sounds instead of letters. By examining these options directly in the Greek text, the article explains why these adjustments introduce too much flexibility to function as evidence, and why scholars are unconvinced by Panin’s

Stuart McEwing
Jan 1, 20264 min read


How Did 70 People Become 2 Million? A Surprising Look at the Numbers Behind Israel’s Growth in Egypt
From 70 to 2 million in 300 years? A 2% growth per generation through outsiders makes the Bible’s numbers surprisingly realistic.

Stuart McEwing
May 16, 20253 min read
What is a good cumulative case for God?
To Dr. Steven Law, I’ve never seen a cumulative case for God’s existence presented like the one you’ve characterised here. The ones I am...

Stuart McEwing
Jan 16, 20232 min read
Does God Require an Explanation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suq0ayB0b8I Atheist: Zeus, Ra, Ganesh? Theist: Not those other gods, the real God in the Bible. The...

Stuart McEwing
Dec 20, 20223 min read

Introduction to Theology

Session 01 - Intro to Systematic Theology

Session 02 - Doctrine of Revelation

Session 03 - Doctrine of God

Session 04 - God's greatness
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