When was Jesus’ Birthday? December 25th, 6th January or Feast of Tabernacles? December 25th would be most people’s answer to this question. However there is nothing at all in the New Testament to fix the date of Jesus’...
Bible Teachings
Tony PearceA Prophetic Creed
Back in the 19th century the great Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, J.C. Ryle (right) wrote the following words, which make far more sense of the state of our world than most of the pronouncements of Christian leaders...
Moses and Torah
Orthodox Judaism and Biblical Christianity have disagreements about how the Torah (also known as the Law, the Pentateuch or the first five books of the Bible) should be interpreted but they agree that Moses was its...
The Virgin Birth
‘Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: Behold the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and shall call his name Immanuel.’ (Isaiah 7.14) Of whom does this prophecy speak? Introduction At a public debate on the...
When was Revelation written?
When people write about the dating of the books of the New Testament they often reveal much about their theological position in relation to those books. Liberal theologians and sceptics like to put the date of the...
Rehabilitating Judas Iscariot
The ‘Gospel of Judas’ published on April 6th 2006 by the National Geographic Society has been a subject of media attention throughout the world with claims that it is one of the most significant archaeological...
Is God inclusive?
Today we hear a great deal about the need to be inclusive by which is meant that there must be no discrimination against anyone on the grounds of race, religion, gender or sexuality. Everybody is to be included in every...
Every Age ends in a Crisis
A study of the whole Bible reveals that there have been different ages or dispensations in which God has dealt with humanity in different ways. It is not that God has changed or that the overall principle of the Bible...
When were the Gospels written?
In his book ‘26 Reasons why Jews don’t believe in Jesus’ (page 139) Asher Norman says: ‘The Epistles and the Gospels were not written by actual witnesses to the events they described.’ He claims that the Gospels were...
Resurrection or re-incarnation?
What happens after we die? In the 19th century sex was a taboo subject in polite society. Today talk about sex bombards our society from every quarter, but death has taken its place as the subject which no one wants to...