Click here to download this article as a PDF Douglas E. Potter, D.Min. Professor of Apologetics and Theology Southern Evangelical Seminary, Charlotte, NC Michael R. Licona. Jesus, Contradicted: Why the Gospels Tell the Same Story Differently. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Academic, 2024. 266 pp. ISBN 978-0-310-15959-9. $34.99. Michael R. Licona, PhD is a professor of New Testament studies at Houston Christian University. This book is...
Did Packer support Licona’s innovative defense of biblical inerrancy? Bill Roach and Mike Licona recently exchanged views on YouTube. We have updated the Defending Inerrancy playlist (<click there!) to include Bill’s responses. J.I. Packer was one of the greatest defenders of biblical inerrancy in the 20th century. He helped shape and define the parameters of inerrancy for the evangelical movement from the 1950s to the...
Did God create Adam, the first human man, in a direct and special way? Or did God indirectly create Adam and Eve by appointing two members from a band of line of highly-evolved, upright-walking hominids (such as Homo heidelbergensis around 750,000 years ago) to be the first true archaic human breeding pair? Does Genesis 1-11 belong to the genre of “Mytho-History” as Assyriologist Thorkild Jacobsen and Christian apologist...
At the 75th meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Dr. Michael Licona will deliver a talk titled. . . The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy Needs a Facelift: A Fresh Look at Biblical Inerrancy. [Ref.] Does the Chicago Statement need a facelift? Should it be revised even if we wanted to? Dr. Bill Roach, co-author of the book Defending Inerrancy, explores these questions in depth at https://youtu.be/J2EO5juqzIg: Although...
The International Society of Christian Apologetics (ISCA) was founded in 2006 with the purpose of fostering the scholarly defense not just the explicit doctrines of the Nicene, Chalcedonian, and Athanasian Creeds, but their implicit doctrines of the inspiration, authority, infallibility, and inerrancy of the Bible. The ISCA doctrinal statement is expanded by the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy “as interpreted by the...
The Gospel Coalition (TGC) recently announced that they are “hosting a series about the need to revise and clarify arguments in light of new hermeneutical and cultural arguments.” But should the Chicago Statement be revised after four decades of service?
