ThoughtLetters filed under Jesus Christ

Why Do Christians Believe in a Virgin Birth If It’s Scientifically Impossible?

Volume 30 • No. 6 • November-December, 2020 Download PDF

Posted in 2020, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, Science & Origins, ThoughtLetters

Is Christianity Just a Crutch? | Could Jesus Have Sinned?

Volume 27 • No. 2 • March—April, 2017 Download PDF

Posted in 2017, General & Miscellaneous, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Darkness at Noon & the Deity of Christ

Volume 26 • No. 2 • March-April 2016 Download PDF

Posted in 2016, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Resurrection Evidence for Kids & Adults

Volume 25 • No. 2 • March-April 2015 Download PDF

Posted in 2015, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

The Jesus Resurrection Apparition-Hallucination Hypothesis

Volume 24 • No. 2 • March-April 2014 Download PDF

Posted in 2014, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

What’s the Point of Praying?

Volume 22 • No. 5 • September-October 2012 Download PDF

Posted in 2012, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Was Jesus Deluded?

Volume 22 • No. 4 • July-August 2012 Download PDF

Posted in 2012, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Is the Biblical Jesus Credible?

AREOPAGUS Proclamation Volume 18, No. 6 • Nov-Dec, 2008 by Daryl E. Witmer   Every year, often just as Christmas or Easter are approaching, the secular media invests a great deal of […]

Posted in 2008, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

What Sort of God Did Jesus Claim to Be?

by Daryl E. Witmer If Jesus never claimed to be divine at all, one could probably justifiably dismiss Christianity as the phony (albeit phenomenal) result of legends about Him which […]

Posted in 2007, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Unconventionally Supernatural

by Daryl E. Witmer Volume 17, No. 3 December, 2006 Download PDF

Posted in 2006, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

When was Jesus First Recognized as God?

by Daryl E. Witmer SKEPTIC: Isn’t it possible that the whole idea of Jesus being anything more than an extraordinary human and spiritual leader was an evolved product of some […]

Posted in 2006, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Son of God? Son of Man?

by Daryl E. Witmer Christians celebrate Christmas as the birthday of Jesus Christ – born into the home of Joseph & Mary, yet God incarnate, Son of God in human […]

Posted in 2004, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Did Jesus Really Exist?

by Daryl E. Witmer Every year on December 25th hundreds of millions of Christian believers from all over the world enthusiastically celebrate the birth of Jesus. But was Jesus really […]

Posted in 2003, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Wrong tomb? Unknown Tomb?

by Daryl E. Witmer The doctrine of the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ is critical to the Christian faith. But is the evidence conclusive? Numerous alternative scenarios have been postulated […]

Posted in 2003, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Is Jesus Only a Legend?

by Daryl E. Witmer The following article is based, in part, on an actual exchange that I had with a skeptic during the Fall of 2001. DEW: Well, who was […]

Posted in 2001, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

On the Virgin Birth, Five Brief Answers to Five Common Objections

by Daryl E. Witmer Larry King, the CNN talk show host, was once asked who he would most want to interview if he could choose anyone from all of history. […]

Posted in 1999, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Cross Examination, The Christian/Islamic Debate Over the Crucifixion

by Daryl E. Witmer, AIIA Executive Director On Saturday evening November 7, 1998, AIIA hosted a Dialogue Dinner with the Muslims at a popular restaurant in Bangor, Maine. While there […]

Posted in 1999, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

The Season for Reason

Quote Forum on the Importance of Engaging the Mind In a takeoff on the sometimes overworked and wearied Advent aphorism, JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON, this month we […]

Posted in 1997, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Is the Crucifixion Account Credible?

Holy Week 1997 has come and gone, but what will surely continue throughout the year, and what has always persisted down through the years, is the speculation about whether the […]

Posted in 1997, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Responding to the Jesus Seminar

About once or twice a year newspapers and magazines all across America explode with headlines that seem to place a huge question mark over the historicity of Jesus Christ – […]

Posted in 1996, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Handling an Old Resurrection Objection

Down through the years a wide variety of challenges have been raised regarding the Biblical claim that Jesus of Nazareth was ever truly resurrected from the grave on the third […]

Posted in 1995, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

How Can It Be that a Man Was God?

An excerpt from Letters From a Skeptic – a brand new book by Dr. Gregory A. Boyd Between March, 1989, and November, 1991, Dr. Greg Boyd – an associate professor […]

Posted in 1994, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Who Was This Child Really? Factoring the Odds on the Deity of the Bethlehem Baby

My dear friend, Thanks for your letter received just this week. I, too, find the whole subject of probability a most fascinating one. As a matter of fact, I recently […]

Posted in 1993, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

Schonfield vs. Easter & the Invincibility of Scripture

“It is the moment before sundown in Jerusalem. On the hill of Golgotha three bodies are suspended on crosses. Two, the thieves, are dead. The third appears so. This is […]

Posted in 1993, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

What Will You Do With Jesus?

Volume 3 • No. 5 • February, 1993 Download PDF

Posted in 1993, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

On the Ressurection: Evidence & Implications

Early last month a man visiting in my home told me that he had once been declared dead. “They had even wheeled me into the morgue”, he said. “But when […]

Posted in 1992, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters

On the Identity of the Historical Jesus

It is a matter of record that Jesus of Nazareth claimed to be God. At the approximate age of thirty years, this son of a carpenter began making some absolutely […]

Posted in 1991, By Topic, By Year, Jesus Christ, ThoughtLetters