Category: Christianity

A Rabbi Cross-Examines Christianity

Rabbi Michael Skobac takes us on a fascinating exploration of how a small Messianic movement within Judaism, 2,000 years ago, transformed into a radically non-Jewish world religion. In this lecture, we learn about the Jewish roots of Christianity, and how those roots became obscured over the course of […]

CS Lewis on the Penal Substitution Theory

CS Lewis in his classic Mere Christianity wrote: ‘The one most people have heard is the one I mentioned before–the one about our being let off because Christ had volunteered to bear a punishment instead of us. Now on the face of it that is an absurd theory. If God was prepared […]

Biblical ‘Prophesy’ of Jesus in Doubt

[I wrote an earlier version of this article which I felt needed revising. This is the second and final version]. Yesterday was Easter Sunday and at Speakers Corner an enthusiastic Christian told me of the amazing prophesy to be found in Psalm 22 concerning Jesus’ death on the […]