The Reason
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Evidence for Jesus as an historical figure from non-biblical sources. I am indebted much to Dr. Gary Habermas for of his careful analysis...

Over the past 200 years historians have been concerned with recovering an accurate picture of the historical Jesus, making a distinction...

The figure of Muhammad casts a shadow across the world and through the annals of time. His significance is especially poignant to...

The following post is about the importance of defining the terms precisely so that conversations more fruitful. Specifically the word...

To say that Jesus was not a legend, is to say the legend of Jesus being God was not an invention of the early church, but came instead...

In the previous post "Was Jesus Jesus a legend? Part I" I looked at the principle weakness of the trilemma argument "Lunatic, Liar,...

In this post I look at a fourth explanatory option to remedy the Lunatic, Liar, Lord argument, explain modern scholarship's hermeneutic...

The following is adapted from a post on 20 April 2009 at www.thinkingmatters.org.nz called "Liar, Lunatic, Lord?" It is a defence of the...

The following is an original post from 27 April 2010 at www.thinkingmatters.org.nz. It is about what the term Atheism means and the...

The following is an original post from 27 April 2010 at www.thinkingmatters.org.nz. It is about what the term Atheism means and the...

Many sociologists and historians have argued that the worldview most responsible for the birth of modern science was Christianity. Why is...

This post is adapted from an original from 7 July 2010 at www.thinkingmatters.org.nz called “The Jesus of History: The 2nd & 3rd Quest...

This post is adapted from an original from 7 July 2010 at www.thinkingmatters.org.nz called “The Jesus of History: The 2nd & 3rd Quest...

This post is adapted from an original from 30 June 2010 at www.thinkingmatters.org.nz called “The Jesus of History: The First Quest (Part...

The following is adapted from an original post on 19 December 2010 at www.thinkingmatters.org.nz called “Why Southgate’s “co-suffering”...

This post is adapted from an original on 16 December 2010 at www.thinkingmatters.org.nz called "The Problem of Evil: Part Two" Here I...

Updated: Jun 28, 2019 This post is adapted from an original on 16 December 2010 at www.thinkingmatters.org.nz called "The Problem of...

In the previous post "Is gratuitous evil a problem?" I wrote of a fundamental flaw for the proponent of the problem of evil (POE). This...

We have seen that the previous versions of the problem of evil (POE) have largely been abandoned. For posts on these see the following...

There is no logical problem of evil. 1 and 2 are not logically contradictory. See here for the post on this argument. An all-powerful and...