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...
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?
Thinking Man Films has produced four films that explore the controversies in archaeology and history over the Israelite exodus from Egypt and their conquest of Canaan. In a culture of skepticism, they search for the “patterns of evidence” that show that the books like Genesis, Exodus, and Joshua are not in error in their reporting of history.