Apologetics

In the first part we saw the evidence on the authorship of the gospels. Despite this, if you still have doubts, today we will try to put ourselves in the conspirators shoes. Just like McFly we’ll return to an alternative second century, where the gospels are anonymous and where a group of church fathers puts into practice the most unworkable and useless plan in the history of successful plans. To find out how it went, let’s ask to our comedian…. Fagiolino!

Strange, but some sceptics read the gospels. As they didn’t find any author’s name in them, they claimed that those texts are anonymous.
Scholars then revealed the great mystery. Opening the Bible, we find the authors written in the index. They are in the titles. In the index! This is funny! Maybe they forgot to read that page?
Apparently the author’s name as the title of the book is not enough for them as a guarantee.
In this, perhaps, we can understand their reasons, since there are other ‘fake’ gospels falsely attributed to the apostles.
So today we are going to see the evidence supporting the evangelists as authors of the gospels.
A round of applause for our comedian… Fagiolino!

I have something to confess… Sometimes I’m sceptical… with sceptics!
Because, sometimes, they say things that are a little hard to believe…
None of the twelve apostles would was smart enough to write the gospels, but, at the same time, they were so smart, to make up the greatest scam of all time.
A conspiracy so well thought out, it remains standing to this day.
The same twelve who thought that the yeast of the Pharisees was an ingredient for bread, would succeed in deceiving millions of people, during the following two millennia of history.
But these misunderstood geniuses, and scam artists, had an Achilles’ heel.
They could scam the richest people in the ancient world, and become rich.
They could scam the Roman Empire, and become powerful.
Instead they chose to use all their intelligence, art, ability to lie, and energy, to… irritate the Pharisees?
What would it be to have all the women, money and power in the world compared to the satisfaction that the apostles felt, seeing those hypocritical and haughty faces, blushing with anger under those funny hats?
A round of applause for our scam artist… Fagiolino!

It’s your birthday. Your friends have a surprise party for you. You come back home. You enter the door. It’s all dark, then someone turns on the light, and… Surprise! The song is sung, the candles are blown out, the cake is eaten. And finally the skeptics’ favorite moment… The telephone game!

The first wishpers something in the next’s ear, the message travels through the queue untill the last one who says the message out loud. That’s funny! The message has been distorted. Everyone laughs.
According to skeptics, this is what happened with the gospels before they were written. Is it true that we can make this comparison?

Did we drank it like we did wirh the orange juice?
Or did they exaggerated with the prosecco?

Discover, with us, what game Jesus, the apostles and the early church played in the first century… A round of applause for our comedian… Fagiolino!

What’s the difference between the New Testament and a Holliwood star’s face? That the New Testament, over two thousand years, has never changed; while on the star’s face, over the years, you’re going to find more and more… Embellishments!

Skeptics say that the gospels have been embellished over the centuries. According to them scribes would have added supernatural elements. In this post we will see that even atheist scholars, after analyzing almost six thousand Greek manuscripts, discovered that the copies are all the same. This disproves the idea of ​​late additions. We’ll also see how the New Testament is the most accurately transmitted ancient text.

A skeptic, in crisis, is thinking: maybe it’s not a conspiracy. If the Bible is true I should repent and obey God. This implies that… It is a conspiracy!

A round of applause for our comedian… Little Bean!

A skeptic falls ill with a fatal disease, before dying, frightened, he prays to the Lord. God heals him, and the doctor, the next day, tells him that his healing is scientifically inexplicable. The skeptic finally believes… That he is a brain in a vat!
Skeptics say that the gospels are just legends because they were written too late.
In this post we will see that there is evidence to show that the gospels were written 10 to 30 years after the resurrection of Jesus.
A skeptic says that the gospel writers were like those guys who make up exaggerated stories to impress their friends at the bar. Ok… But if you want to be correct, in the analogy, that guy… Has real evidence!

Skeptics say that Jesus’ resurrection is just a legend. According to them, the resurrection was invented only centuries after his death. But wait… There is a small problem: the empty tomb has reached us, and anyone today can visit it in Jerusalem. The skeptic replies that it could be any tomb. Truly? Just any grave? in a garden near Golgotha? Coincidentally, precisely in the location described in the gospels? Visited since the first century by Christians? Some skeptic or a Roman emperor might decide to cover up this problem. Discover all the evidence here in our post on the tomb of Jesus.

There are very strong arguments with which we can prove that God exists. In this post, we will look at a topic that will leave sceptics speechless. There are no objections to this argument. In this post we will not study the perfection of God, nor will we delve into the dilemmas of Metaphysics. We … Read more

In medieval times a monk named Anselm developed the ontological argument to prove the existence of God. Anselm uses the way God is, to demonstrate His existence. How does? If we pick up our Bible and read it, we learn that God is all-powerful, all-knowing, eternal, he has infinite and perfect love, infinite and perfect … Read more

With the previous arguments we have seen that it is possible to demonstrate the existence of God, through inductive reasoning. What does inductive mean? Let’s think of a scientist who wants to measure the acceleration of a body due to the gravity of the Earth. The scientist will pick up an object with a certain … Read more

In real-life experience, we realize that there are moral duties. Morality exists. The question we ask ourselves is the following: what do these moral obligations depend on? Do they depend on society, culture and the particular situation, or do they exist independently of these? Let’s consider an example: you have a child, but someone murders … Read more

In this post, we continue the series about the arguments for the existence of God. In the post ‘Who is God’ we searched in the Bible for some essential qualities of God. Let’s assume you come home, and find the house flooded. When you came out everything was normal, now the water has flooded the … Read more

With this post, the series about the arguments for the existence of God continues. In the post ‘who is God’, we analyzed the definition of God, according to the Bible. Who made the world? The planet on which we live presents the ideal conditions for life. We have night and day, the seasons, an ideal … Read more

In the nineteenth century, Darwin observed that animals physically change, in order to adapt to the environment. These changes are transmitted to the offspring. So for example, you have finches with different beaks, depending on the location where they live. Let’s think, for example, about a pack of dogs traveling to a cold environment. Dogs … Read more

Many say there is no evidence to say that God exists. Have you ever read a book? And a book written by ‘nothing’? Certainly not, each book was written by one or more authors. There is no book without a person who wrote it. To be more precise, the book was written for a reason. … Read more

One of the problems for skeptics is the contradictions in the gospels. How can we explain them? Let’s think of eyewitnesses, each giving their own version of an event. Each of them there will be a different version from the other. Sometimes we will find apparent contradictions between the versions. This happens if the witnesses … Read more

I recently found out a very interesting book. Cold case Christianity. The author, J.Warren Wallace, was a police detective, and has worked for many years in the homicide department. He was an atheist, since for a case, he started reading the gospels in the Bible. He realized that they were real eye witness accounts, and … Read more