Most scholars agree that the Gospel of John portrays Jesus claiming to be God’s uniquely divine Son and that the apostle Paul made similar claims. However, there is no agreement among [...]
Caleb Lindgren of Christianity Today interviewed Mike Licona on his book Why Are There Differences in the Gospels? This article appeared in the May 2017 printed issue as well as on the CT web site.
On November 15, 2016, there was a panel discussion on Mike Licona’s new book Why Are There Differences in the Gospels? (New York: OUP, 2017). The panelists were Mark Strauss, Darrell Bock, Craig [...]
Ahmed Deedat claimed that Hebrews 5:7 teaches that God heard Jesus’s prayer and spared him from death on the cross. In this video, Dr. Licona reveals Deedat’s careless treatment of [...]
Muslim apologists such as Ahmed Deedat, Shabir Ally, Zakir Naik, and Yusaf Ismail often appeal to the Sign of Jonah in the Gospels as evidence that Jesus did not die. In this video, Dr. Licona [...]
The Quran teaches that Jesus did not die in the first century but God made it appear that he did. Muslim apologists, therefore, claim that the Gospel accounts of Jesus’s death are [...]
Muslims often appeal to the Gospel of Barnabas, claiming it’s the most accurate of all the Gospels. Although leading Muslim apologists such as Ahmed Deedat and Zakir Naik do not promote the [...]
While lecturing in Calgary in 2017, a former Muslim told Mike his debates with Muslims was one of the factors that led him to leave Islam and follow Jesus.
Anyone who reads the Gospels carefully will notice that there are differences in the manner in which they report the same events. These differences have led many conservative Christians to resort [...]