Jesus Christ Questions and Answers

Is Jesus really God?

• Jesus Christ our Creator: A Biblical Defence of the Trinity
• Is Jesus Christ God? (Biblical proof on the Christian Answers Network)
• Could recent creation be true, but not Christianity?
• Is Jesus Christ the Creator God?
• Who is Jesus? God the Son?
• Doctrine of the Person of Christ (Biblical Training: I. Pre-Incarnate Existence; II. Incarnation; III. Deity of Christ; IV. Humanity of Christ; V. Kenosis: Philippians 2:6– VI. Impeccability of Christ; VII. Hypostatic Union and the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451)
• How to talk Creation with a Jehovah’s Witness
• John 1:1 and the New World Translation [Jehovah’s Witness]:
  What do the Greek scholars really say? (Christian Research Institute)
• The Divine Claims of Jesus (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Jesus’ Assertion of Godhood: Miscellaneous Claims (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• How can Jesus be God, yet not know things? (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Effectively Sharing the Deity of Christ with Jehovah’s Witnesses (showing that Jesus is Jehovah, James White, Christian Research Journal)
• On the Trail of the Trilemma [Liar, Lunatic or Lord],
  Tekton Apologetics Ministries
• For related questions about the Trinity, see:
  Is one God really three persons?
• Glimpses of Christ the Creator (ICR Acts and Facts article)
• Please Pardon This Interruption: Review of Jesus Interrupted by Bart Ehrman

What is the evidence that Jesus ever existed?

• Jesus: Shattering the Christ-Myth (refuting ‘Jesus-myth’ theories of G.A. Wells et al.), Tekton Apologetics Ministries
• Wells Without Water, (Direct response to Wells’ criticism of ‘Jesus: Shattering the Christ-Myth’ — see above), Tekton Apologetics Ministries
• Extrabiblical Witnesses to Jesus before AD 200 (Christian Think Tank).
• Refuting the myth that Jesus never existed, James Hannam (Ph.D. in history, Cambridge University, UK)
• For related questions about the New Testament, see
  Q&A: Bible
• Dawkins’ Ironic Hypocrisy

Did Jesus Christ really rise from the dead?

• Easter and Good Friday: questions and answers
• The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus (Semi-Technical, Dr William Lane Craig — off-site)
• Easter: Myth, Hallucination, or History? (Semi-Technical, Dr Edwin Yamauchi — off-site)
• Jesus Christ: His Life, Death and Resurrection (Christian Answers Network)
• The Resurrection: Miracle or Myth? (Hank Hanegraaff, Christian Research Institute)
• The ‘Swoon Theory’ (Christian Research Institute)
• The Impossible Faith: Or, How Not to Start an Ancient Religion (17 factors that meant Christianity could not have succeeded in the ancient world, unless it was backed up with irrefutable proof of the Resurrection; Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Is There Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus? A Debate between William Lane Craig and Bart D. Ehrman (PDF, semi-Technical, includes refutation of improbability-of-miracles argument with Bayes’ Theorem; off-site)
• Easter’s earliest creed
• Can we believe the Gospels? A former chief magistrate examines the witnesses to the resurrection
• Genesis and the Cross
• The Resurrection and Genesis

Was Christ really born of a virgin? Are there answers to the sceptical objections?

• The Virginal Conception of Christ (available in Spanish) (Semi-technical)
• Christmas and Genesis
• The Isaiah 7:14 passage (Technical, Christian Think Tank)
• The Nativity: Fact or Fiction?
• The Naturalist Attack on the Virginal Conception and Resurrection
• How Did the Wise Men Know? or Is Astrology Valid? (and what was the Star of Bethlehem? Ariel Ministries)

Did Jesus fulfill any prophecies?

• How do we know that Jesus was the Messiah? (Christian Answers Network)
• Messianic Monkeyshines (refuting critics, Tekton Apologetics Ministries)

Is it rational to believe in Jesus’ miracles?

• Walking trees … Modern science helps us understand a puzzling miracle (Jesus’ healing of a blind man at Bethsaida, Mark 8:22–25).
• Materialist ‘defence’ of Bible fails (defence of the supernatural in Biblical miracle reports)
• Playing the Christmas Game with a Marked Deck (Demonstrates the anti-supernaturalistic bias of much ‘objective’ historical analysis of the Jesus’ life, Christian Research Journal)
• Thallus and Phlegon: extrabiblical evidence for the preternatural darkness at Christ’s death (Christian Think Tank)

Jesus Seminar: Facts or fallacies? Are the ‘gospels’ of Thomas and Judas reliable?

• Are “The Jesus Seminar” criticisms of the gospels and Jesus Christ valid? (Christian Answers Network)
• The Jesus Seminar and the Gospel of Thomas: Courting the Media at the Cost of Truth (Christian Research Journal)
• The Seventy-Four “Scholars”: Who Does the Jesus Seminar Really Speak For? (Christian Research Journal)
• Gospel of Judas?  A critique (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)

What about the claims of The Da Vinci Code?

• The Da Vinci Code: Fiction masquerading as fact
• The Da Vinci Code movie
• Da Vinci Code apostate challenges CMI
• The Da Vinci Code: Secret hidden truth? A best seller rewrites the truth about the Bible
• Not InDavincible: A Review and Critique of The DaVinci Code (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• What’s wrong with The Da Vinci Code? (Printable flyer in Word format, Tekton Apologetics Ministries) (available in Spanish)
• The Gospel According to Dan Brown (Culture Watch)

Was Christianity just copied from pagan mythology?

• Was the New Testament Influenced by Pagan Religions?, e.g. Mithraism, Osiris, Attis, Adonis, etc. (Christian Research Journal)
• Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth? (Mithraism, Horus, etc.; refuting Kersey Graves’ 16 Crucified Saviors (Christian Think Tank)
• Confronting the Copycat Thesis (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Was Christianity plagiarized from pagan myths? Refuting the copycat thesis

What is the difference between Gnosticism and Christianity?

• Two-Part Series on Ancient and Modern Gnosticism by Douglas Groothuis, Christian Research Institute:
  1. Gnosticism and the Gnostic Jesus
  2. The Gnostic Gospels: Are they authentic?

Why is Jesus Christ given the title of ‘the last Adam’ in 1 Corinthians 15:45?

• First Adam — Last Adam
• The Resurrection and Genesis