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3.1 — Why Prophecy Matters For thousands of years, people have claimed to know the future. Ancient oracles, astrologers, psychics, and modern-day predictors have all asserted that they possess knowledge of events before they occur. Most such predictions, however, share a common characteristic: they are either so broad that they could describe many different outcomes…
2.2 — Non-Christian Sources One way to evaluate the New Testament’s historical setting is to examine writers outside the Christian tradition. If Jesus and the early Christian movement were purely legendary or invented long after the events they describe, we would expect little acknowledgment from non-Christian authors writing near that period. Instead, several Jewish and…
3.6 — Exploring the Messianic Prophecies The passages that follow are among the best-known Messianic prophecies in the Hebrew Scriptures and have been discussed by both Jewish and Christian scholars for centuries. Christians have traditionally understood these texts as pointing to Jesus Christ, while Jewish interpretations have often understood them differently, applying them to other…
2.4 — Historical Conclusions The question guiding this section has been straightforward: Do the biblical accounts correspond with what can be independently investigated? The evidence examined throughout this section points to a consistent conclusion. Independent writers such as Tacitus, Josephus, and Pliny the Younger acknowledge Jesus, His execution under Roman authority, and the rapid growth…
3.6.1 — The Suffering Servant “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.”— Isaiah 53:3 The Passage Among all the passages in the Hebrew Scriptures, few have received as much attention as Isaiah 52:13–53:12. It describes a servant chosen by God who is rejected, suffers on behalf of…
2.1 — The Historical Question If the biblical text has been preserved with a meaningful degree of accuracy, a natural question follows: does anything outside the Bible support its claims? The focus now shifts from how the text was preserved to whether it reflects real people, real places, and real events. Evaluating the Evidence Conclusions…
