Bible Authenticity

Contradiction About Centurion’s Words At Jesus’ Death?

March 31, 2025 BibleAuthenticity Comments 1 comment

Critics and skeptics of the Bible have alleged many contradictions. One of their less common claims is that the gospels have a contradiction about the centurion’s words at Jesus’ death.

Alleged contradiction:

What did the centurion say when Jesus dies?
(a) “Certainly this man was innocent” (Luke 23:47)
(b) “Truly this man was the Son of God” (Mark 15:39)

The centurion made both statements. Gospel writers Matthew and Mark record one statement, and gospel writer Luke records another confession by the centurion. This is why we have four gospels. The alleged contradiction narrow-mindedly assumes the centurion could not have made both statements. read more

The Trinity – A Doctrine In Crisis

March 30, 2025 BibleAuthenticity Comments 2 comments

The Trinity is not a Biblical belief

The Trinity is a doctrine in crisis these days.

The following article, entitled “Most Americans Don’t Believe In The Trinity”, was published on March 30, 2025 in The Christian Post:

“An overwhelming majority of Christians reject the basic Christian teaching of the Trinity, prompting new concerns that Americans are living without the influence of “the truths and life principles of God.”

The Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University released the latest installment of its American Worldview Inventory series which documents Americans’ views on the Trinity. The research is based on responses collected from 2,100 adults in January.

Overall, just 40% of respondents believe that God exists and affects people’s lives. That figure rises to 53% among self-identified Christians, 60% among theologically-identified born-again Christians, and 100% among Integrated Disciples. The latter term refers to those who have a biblical worldview. While a majority of those surveyed (59%) believe in the existence of Jesus Christ, a significantly smaller share of adults (29%) believe in the Holy Spirit.

Slightly more than 1 in 10 respondents (11%) believe in the Trinity, that the God of the Bible is “three distinct but inseparable and equal persons in one infinite Being.” The persons in the Trinity are God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

Belief in the Trinity, characterized by the Cultural Research Center as a “fundamental tenet of Christianity,” increases to 16% among self-identified Christians, 24% among theologically-identified born-again Christians and 62% among Integrated Disciples.

“These results are further evidence of the limited or lack of trust Americans have in the Bible, the limitations we place on the authority and influence of God, and our refusal to cooperate with God by living in harmony with His ways and purposes,” said CRC Director of Research George Barna in response to the survey results. “Even the statistics for the groups that are most in-tune with biblical teachings, such as belief in the nature and impact of the Trinity, are shockingly low for a nation in which most people claim to be Christian.” read more

Do The Gospels Contradict About Who Carried Jesus’ Cross?

March 30, 2025 BibleAuthenticity Comments 1 comment

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The gospels seem to contradict about who carried Jesus’ cross, which critics seize upon.

Seeming contradiction:

Did Jesus bear his own cross?
(a) Yes (John 19:17)
(b) No (Matthew 27:31-32)

THE PROBLEM

Who carried the crossbeam or pole?

· Matthew 27:32 – Simon

Mark 15:21 – Simon

· Luke 23:26 – Simon

· John 19:17 – Jesus

THE EXPLANATION

These divergent details, rather than being contradictions, actually are complimentary, and give powerful evidence the gospel writers are telling the truth, rather than copying from a single fictional account, or writing new fiction, in which the details are harmonized, or smoothed out. read more

Do The Gospels Contradict About What Time Jesus Was Crucified?

March 30, 2025 BibleAuthenticity Comments 7 comments

Skeptics and critics have claimed the gospels contradict about what time Jesus was crucified.

Alleged “contradiction”:

Where was Jesus at the sixth hour on the day of the crucifixion?
(a) On the cross (Mark 15:23)
(b) In Pilate’s court (John 19:14)

The issue here is:

What was the time of day when Jesus handed over to be crucified and put on cross:

· Mark 15:25 – “It was the third hour when they crucified him” (ESV). “That is, 9 A. M.” – ESV footnote on Mark 15:25

· John 19:14-16 – “Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, ‘Behold your king!’ They cried out, ‘Away with him, away with him, crucify him!’ Pilate said to them, ‘Shall I crucify your king?’ The chief priests answered, ‘We have no king but Caesar.’ So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus” (ESV). “That is, about noon” – ESV footnote on John 19:14 read more

Do Not Be Deceived By Faked Embryo Drawings

March 29, 2025 BibleAuthenticity Comments 5 comments

Since the 1860’s faked embryo drawings have been used by evolutionists to mislead many into believing that Darwinian evolutionary theory is scientifically true.

“Your eyes could see my embryo” (Psalm 139:16 NJB).

Georges Romanes’ 1892 copy of Ernst Haeckel’s fraudulent embryo drawings, from his book Darwin Illustrated.

“Watch out that no one deceives you” (Matthew 24:4 NIV).

But unsuspecting people, including schoolchildren, many have been deceived by such drawings purportedly representing actual biological embryos. read more

Contradiction About When Jesus’ Disciples Returned To Galilee?

March 28, 2025 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

Skeptics and critics have sometimes claimed that the gospels have a contradiction about when Jesus’ disciples returned to Galilee.

Alleged contradiction:

When did the disciples return to Galilee?
(a) Immediately, because when they saw Jesus in Galilee “some doubted” (Matthew 28:17). This period
of uncertainty should not persist
(b) After at least 40 days. That evening the disciples were still in Jerusalem (Luke 24:33). Jesus
appeared to them there and told them, stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high”
(Luke 24:49). He was appearing to them “during forty days” (Acts 1:3), and “charged them not to depart
from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise … “(Acts 1:4) read more

Dinosaur Evolution – From Five Fingers To Two Fingers?

March 27, 2025 BibleAuthenticity Comments 13 comments

Artist's impression by Masato Hattori A tall brown dinosaur stands in a forest, its ostrich-like head almost in the tree canopy, grasping trees with hands containing two very large claws and sets of orange feathers on the arms. The dense rainforest is a dark green mixture of tropical-looking hardwood trees and fern-like plants.

This two-fingered dinosaur is said to evolved from three fingered dinosaurs, who evolved from four fingered dinosaurs, who evolved from five fingered dinosaurs. (Artist’s impression by Masato Hattori). Did dinosaur evolution really work this way?

A BBC article was published on March 25,2025, under the title of: “Unique two-clawed dinosaur discovered”

Some excerpts from the article are, as follows:

“At nearly a foot long, the claws themselves were much larger than their underlying bone, the study revealed.
Besides better grasping, the two-fingered hands may have been used for display, digging, or as formidable weapons.
The most famous two-fingered theropods are species within the group tyrannosaurids, which includes Tyrannosaurus rex, but Duonychus evolved its two-fingered hands separately from them and from other two-fingered theropods.
The specimen also preserves the first keratinous sheath of a therizinosaur, an element that covers the claw much like human fingernails, aiding defence, movement, or prey catching. read more

Who Is God?

March 26, 2025 BibleAuthenticity Comments 1 comment

Many people wonder, “Who Is God?” He is often thought of as a spirit being and independent of the material creation, while pantheism holds that he is the universe itself. Many believe “there are many such gods” (1 Corinthians 8:5 REB).

This article does not claim to be all-inclusive, but these are some of the primary things we are told in the scriptures about the Almighty, such as who and what he is, but also about what he is not.

“He, Shaddai (Almighty), is far beyond our reach. Supreme in power, in equity, excelling in saving justice, yet no oppressor”—Job 37:23 NJB read more

The Laws of Logic

March 26, 2025 BibleAuthenticity Comments 11 comments

Only the Bible can make sense of the standards by which we evaluate whether or not something is true. One such set of standards are the laws of logic. We all know that a true claim cannot contradict another true claim. That would violate a law of logic: the law of non-contradiction. The statements “The light is red” and “The light is not red” cannot both be true at the same time and in the same sense. Laws of logic thus represent a standard by which we can judge certain truth claims. Moreover, all people seem to “know” laws like the law of non-contradiction. We all assume that such laws are the same everywhere and apply at all times without exception. But why is this? How do we know such things?

If we consider the biblical worldview, we find that we can make sense of the laws of logic. The Bible tells us that God’s mind is the standard for all knowledge because, “God . . . has perfect knowledge” (Job 37:15,16 NIV). “God has hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge in Christ” (Colossians 2:3). read more

Did Herod Think Jesus Was John the Baptist?

March 25, 2025 BibleAuthenticity Comments 0 Comment

Skeptics and critics have claimed the gospels contradict about whether King Herod thought Jesus was John the Baptist.

Alleged contradiction:

Did Herod think that Jesus was John the Baptist?
(a) Yes (Matthew 14:2; Mark 6:16)
(b) No (Luke 9:9)

Let’s first look at what Herod was afraid of:

“When Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee, heard about Jesus, he said to his advisers, “This must be John the Baptist raised from the dead! That is why he can do such miracles.”—Matthew 14:1,2 NLT read more