…There were many books outside the New Testament which were commonly used by churches in Europe, Alexandria in church. Such as: Epistle of Barnabas, Shepherd of Hermas, Paul’s Epistle to the Laodiceans, 1 Clement, 2 Clement, Preaching of Peter, Apocalypse of Peter, Gospel According to, the Egyptians, Gospel According to the Hebrews, etcetera.
God’s Word is guidance for every area of life. Song of Songs is a poem of love between a husband and wife and so, while the content may be graphic it is appropriate in the marriage context.…
Critics have argued that since Matthew refers to himself in third person here, he cannot be the author of the gospel:
…“As Jesus passed on from there he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office; and he said to him, "Follow me".
Many critics like to pick very selective verses from the writings of Paul & James to make it seem that these early Christian leaders had opposite teachings. If, however, you are familiar with the entire New Testament, this argument falls apart. …
Among the thousands of careful English translations available, the King James translation is the only one which includes this ending to 1 John 5:7—”For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.”…
There are two puzzling questions related to the death of Judas when we compare Matthew 27:3-8 with Acts 1:18-19:
Matthew says that Judas “went and hanged himself” while Acts says, “falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out.”…
Jesus was quoting Psalm 82:6 here, so let us start by understanding what this Psalm is saying. But first we must clarify that the Hebrew word ‘god’ used in this passage (אֱלֹהִים elohim) is also sometimes translated as ‘magistrate’ or ‘judge’, as in Exodus 21:6, Exodus 22:8,9, and Exodus 22:28.…
This is one of the more ridiculous attacks against scripture. It is exceedingly obvious to anyone familiar with the Injīl that Jesus has a very high view of the previous prophets (Mt 5:17; Mt 12:3; Lk 13:28; John 8:39,40).…
Some critics of the Injīl point to passages like John 8:1-11 to “prove” that it has grave defects, since some ancient manuscripts add it as an appendix to Luke and others have omitted it completely.…
In the first passage (5:31), Jesus is submitting himself hypothetically to the official Jewish law that every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses (Deuteronomy 19).…