Posts Tagged by Romans
How Many Guards at the Tomb? A series of essays and ebook.
| March 8, 2013 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, atheism, Bible Reliability, Blog, General, Jesus, resurrection, theism, theology |
My post “How many guards at Jesus’ tomb?” has drawn thousands of visitors. The bulk of these come during the Easter season. I suspect that there are a lot of churches putting on Passion plays and they’re looking for some guidance on this topic. This year I have written essays that corroborate various claims made within that post. Hopefully, in time for the Easter 2013 season.
Guards at the Tomb: The Discipline of the Roman Soldier
| March 8, 2013 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, atheism, Blog, General, Jesus, resurrection, theism, theology |
The Jews were not inclined to be sympathetic to the Romans. The idea of dead Roman soldiers must have been, in the main, a very pleasant one to turn about in one’s mind. However, what if balanced against this highly desirable prospect was a very undesirable prospect, that Jesus’ followers would begin announcing to all that Jesus had risen from the dead?
Prelude to an Argument for Christianity: The Jewish People
| March 6, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under apologetics, atheism, Blog, General, theology |
It took a few years after my personal battle with atheism for me to realize the importance of Jesus’ Jewishness in understanding Christianity- and defending it. The character of the Jewish people at that time is well documented by both the Old Testament and extra-biblical sources. Some things about Christianity, or perhaps more precisely, the New Testament, make no sense apart from the Jewish context that it arose in. The brief video presentation below is not an argument for Christianity but rather foundation laying for such an argument. Everyone loves a puzzle! Puzzle me this- how has the Jewish nation managed to remain intact over thousands of years in the face of immense hostility to the point where they were able to emerge in numbers enough to re-claim their ancient stomping grounds? When you’re done with that, how did a people whose devotion to “Hear Oh Israel, The Lord your God is ONE” managed to become the womb for a new world view where God became a man?
Easter is no Legend, the Resurrection is no mere myth: Myth Made Fact is a Different Story
| March 18, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
It is that time of year again, when skeptics begin leveling their claims that Christianity is just a re-packaged bit of borrowed paganism and [insert your conspiracy theory here]. For the sake of this post, let’s merely concede that there are similarities to ancient myths and train our minds on the critical distinction: none of them are set against a historical backdrop as fleshed out as Christianity.
The Growth of the Early Church: A Testimony Believed. Martyrs for what they saw not what they believed.
| January 29, 2008 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General, Papers |
The Growth of the Early Church: A Testimony Believed. This essay was written in response to challenges to demonstrate that the early Christians died because of their testimony, and their unwillingness to reject their testimony. In other words, they believed that they had actually seen certain events, and chose to die rather than deny what…
Do not do tomorrow what you know is good to do today.
| December 14, 2006 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
And by ‘good’ I mean in the theological, moral sense. Over the last five years or so, the sntjohnny household has endured various sorts of troubles that were truly unpleasant. To keep it in context, I should add that at least very little was ‘tragic.’ That has not been lost on me. One of the…
Politics and Christianity
| October 8, 2006 | Posted by Anthony under Blog, General |
A discussion thread commenting on similar themes is here: http://www.sntjohnny.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=2200 Today I attended a study at church on ‘Politics and Christianity.’ I don’t think many people who consider this question understand that the American situation is extremely unique in that our system explicitly allows Christians to express themselves, just as it does anyone else. For…
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