[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]‘Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?’ The hope, that she might now learn what she sought, gave wings to her words–intensity and pathos. If the supposed gardener had borne to another place the Sacred Body, she would take It away, if only she knew where It was laid. […]| The Library of Historical Apologetics
An Apology for the Bible is Bishop Watson’s answer to Thomas Paine’s book The Age of Reason, Part II, which is a sort of catalogue of standard gripes about both the Old and the New Testaments. The book is surprisingly timely, as many of these objections are still circulating today on the internet. In a series […]| The Library of Historical Apologetics
An undesigned coincidence occurs when one account of an event leaves out a bit of information that doesn’t affect the overall picture, but a different account indirectly supplies the missing detail, usually answering some natural question raised by the first. Forgers do not want to leave loose ends like this that might raise awkward questions; they […]| The Library of Historical Apologetics
[T]he truth of our religion, like the truth of common matters, is to be judged of by all the evidence taken together. And unless the whole series of things which may be alleged in this argument, and every particular thing in it, can reasonably be supposed to have been by accident (for here the stress of the argument for Christianity lies); then is the truth of it proved; ...| The Library of Historical Apologetics
Somehow or other an extraordinary idea has arisen that the disbelievers in miracles consider them coldly and fairly, while believers in miracles accept them only in connection with some dogma. The fact is quite the other way. The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in […]| The Library of Historical Apologetics
TWO OBJECTIONS TAKEN FROM THE SILENCE OF JOSEPHUS. I. He has not mentioned the slaughter of the infants of Bethlehem: II. Nor of the Galileans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. ST. MATTHEW says, chap. ii. 16, “Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceedingly wroth, […]| The Library of Historical Apologetics
If it be allowed that there was such a person as Jesus Christ, that he was virtuous and amiable, that he preached the most excellent morality and practiced the virtues which he taught, from what source is the knowledge of this derived? How do we know that there was such a person, and that his […]| The Library of Historical Apologetics
In a well-disciplined army, the officers are not only trained to handle arms and resist an attack from the enemy, but are instructed in the most efficient find successful modes of laying siege to fortresses, defending important stations, from assailants, and, in short, are prepared in every way to meet any plans that may be […]| The Library of Historical Apologetics
“If whilst we attempt to infer the Truth of the Resurrection of Christ, we run counter to any truly rational and allowed Principles; if the Arguments we make use of, when thoroughly sifted and traced, are found to terminate in that which the sober Sense of Mankind must condemn, as sophistical, false, or impertinent; and […]| The Library of Historical Apologetics
If the fact of the Resurrection be in itself, as it confessedly is, absolutely unique in all human experience, the point which it occupies in history is absolutely unique also. To this point all former history converges as to a certain goal: from this point all subsequent history flows as from its life-giving spring.| The Library of Historical Apologetics
