Anders Behring Breivik walks to the stand at the start of the third day of proceedings in Oslo Photo: REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch The Associated Press reported: ‘Anxious to prove he’s not insane, confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik has told a court that questions about his mental health are part […]
from The Bart Ehrman Blog On February 1 I had a public debate in Chapel Hill with Daniel Wallace, a conservative evangelical Christian New Testament scholar who teaches at that bastion of conservative dispensationalist theology, Dallas Theological Seminary. I have known Dan for over thirty years, since we were […]
A great video exposing the crafty attempt by Atheists like Sam Harris to avoid criticism by re-labelling themselves as rationalists or those advocating reason (since rationality and reason cannot be criticised directly by most people) and by hiding their positive or alternative beliefs (e.g. humanism, secularism, communism etc). It […]
According to a report in today’s Daily Telegraph “The Church of England should “rejoice” at the prospect of marriage between homosexual couples rather than fear it, senior bishops and clergy have said.” I suspect that most Muslims take absolutely no interest in the statements of Bishops on sexuality. That said, Jesus is reported […]
A little bit far from the traditional “Tafseer”, when a cosmologist finishes reading the verse Quran 32:5 “He [Allah] arranges [each] matter from the heaven to the earth; then it will ascend to Him in a Day, the extent of which is a thousand years of those which you count.” … He wouldn’t miss […]
The Muslim Debate Initiative 