Notes
Long form companions
The scrollytelling makes the case quickly. These notes go deeper on the points where readers usually want more: the mythicist case, the strongest atheist philosophy, the Old Testament moral problems, the Quranic position, the archaeology, the early high Christology.
Sean Carroll and poetic naturalism
The strongest contemporary naturalist case, and where it begs the question.
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The Bauckham eyewitness chain
Why the Gospels are testimony rather than anonymous late legend.
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The Old Testament moral problems
Conquest, slavery, the imprecatory psalms. What honest engagement looks like.
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Hell, universalism, and the range of orthodox options
Three positions, all considered orthodox by significant historical streams.
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Deconversion narratives and their triggers
What ex Christians actually objected to, and how the site addresses each trigger.
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Mythicism in detail (Carrier and Price)
The thesis that Jesus never existed, and why it is held by no professional NT historian.
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The Quran on the crucifixion
Surah 4:157, the doctrine of tahrif, and the historical record.
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Archaeology confirms New Testament detail
When the New Testament makes incidental claims, archaeology repeatedly confirms them.
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Lemaître and the Christian origin of the Big Bang
The single most important cosmological theory of the twentieth century was proposed by a Catholic priest.
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Dale Allison's vision theory and its limits
The most sophisticated current naturalistic alternative to the resurrection, and where it underexplains the data.
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Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the comparative test
Five tests every religious historical claim should pass.
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The early church's social practices as evidence
Movements built on lies do not produce the social transformations the early church produced.
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Engaging Hinduism on its strongest version
The deepest disagreement is over the nature of ultimate reality.
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Engaging Buddhism on its strongest version
Different diagnoses of the human problem and different prescriptions for the cure.
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Prophecy probability done honestly
Why we replaced Stoner's 1 in 10^17 with the convergence argument.
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Hurtado, Bauckham, and the explosive early Christology
The earliest discoverable Christology was already very high.
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The full twelve Habermas facts
The site uses six. The full survey identified twelve, all accepted by overwhelming majorities.
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Christological convergence across all NT books
Independent strands converge. There is no New Testament document with a strictly low Christology.
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Biblical inspiration without strict inerrancy
The case for Christianity does not require the strongest twentieth century North American doctrine of inerrancy.
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Christianity's civilizational track record
A mixed record. The standard "religion poisons everything" narrative does not survive the data.
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The full non Christian witness map
Nine sources, hostile, neutral, and Stoic, all confirming a basic shape.
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The Synoptic Problem and the status of Q
The site's case does not depend on a particular solution.
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