22Oct 2021 by Post

Una cuestión de días: interpretando el primer capítulo del Génesis

Apologética, Biblia, Cristianismo, Días literales, Español, Genesis, Jonathan McLatchie, Los días en Génesis, Teología, Tierra joven, Tierra vieja
He estado publicando una serie de artículos sobre la mejor manera de interpretar los primeros capítulos del Génesis y sobre cómo la ciencia puede iluminar los textos bíblicos y guiar nuestra hermenéutica. En este artículo, exploraré el texto del primer capítulo de las Escrituras, Génesis 1, en vista a determinar si este texto compromete a una interpretación de Tierra joven de los orígenes o, al menos, la medida en que el texto tiende a apoyar tal punto de vista, si es que lo hace. Es común que los creacionistas de la Tierra joven supongan que, si se puede demostrar que la interpretación del texto de la Tierra joven es el enfoque hermenéutico más valioso o más simple, entonces este es el punto de vista que uno debe preferir, y por…
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06Oct 2021 by Post

Extrabiblical Evidence for the Veracity of the Gospel History

4. Is the NT True?, Apologetics, Bible, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Extrabiblical Evidence for the Gospel, Gospel, Historical documents, history, Jonathan McLatchie, New Testament, Skeptics, theology, Theology and Christian Apologetics
In a previous article, I reviewed several arguments that are typically raised in support of the historicity of Jesus but, upon closer inspection, turn out to be of extremely limited evidential value. In this article, I will discuss an approach to arguing from extrabiblical sources that I consider to be much more robust. Whereas in the previous article, I critiqued appeals to direct testimony to the historicity of Jesus (which, at best, only attest to the broad outlines of the gospel story), in this article I will consider incidental allusions in the gospels that are indirectly and undesignedly confirmed by extrabiblical secular sources. The data surveyed in the ensuing discussion are of varying evidential weights, though all are (in my assessment) significantly more probable on the hypothesis of historical reportage than on its falsehood. The case for…
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17Oct 2020 by Post

ID by Another Name? Astronomer Says 50 Percent Chance We’re Living in Computer Simulation

base reality, Bayesian reasoning, Brian Josephson, Cambridge University, Cavendish Laboratory, Columbia University, computer simulation, David Kipping, Douglas Axe, Evolution, forecast, Intelligent Design, Jonathan McLatchie, mathematics, Michael Egnor, Nobel Prize, rain, Scientific American, Twitter, umbrella
Of course, an 80 percent chance that we live in an intelligently design world compares favorably with only a 50 percent chance. Source
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13Mar 2020 by Post

Messianic Convergence in the Gospels: A New Way to Frame the Argument from Old Testament Fulfilment

Apologetics, Christianity, fulfilled prophecy, gospels, Is Jesus God?, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jonathan McLatchie, messianic prophecy, New Testament, Old Testament, Prophecy, prophecy in the New Testament, theology, Theology and Christian Apologetics
Anyone who has spent considerable time studying the gospels can tell that they are literally saturated with Old Testament fulfilment and allusions. Indeed, the early church used two primary lines of argument to establish the Messianic credentials of Jesus of Nazareth — the resurrection of Jesus from the dead and Messianic prophecy. How useful is fulfilment of the Messianic prophecy in the person of Jesus to the purposes of contemporary, twenty-first-century apologists? In this article, I explore a way to frame the argument in a robust and objective way. First, I will summarise my argument, and then I will dig into the details. A Summary of the Basic Argument When it comes to the origins of the gospel narratives, there are three contending hypotheses for explaining their origin. These are:…
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