New Testament Archive

Is Jesus a Dummy with a Painfully Short Attention Span?

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 33, number 02 (2010). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org What New Testament critic Bart Ehrman categorizes as one of his “favorite apparent discrepancies” in the Bible would be relatively easy for [...]

Discernment in an Age of Information Overload

This article first appeared in Christian Research Journal, volume 33, number 03 (2010). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS In our age of information overload, Christians must learn to discern between good and evil, right and wrong, truth and falsity. The need for discernment becomes particularly [...]

Are Earthquakes Signs of the End Times?

This article first appeared in the Volume 21 / Number 4 / 1999 issue of the Christian Research Journal. For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: www.equip.org. Summary: Has an unusual increase in the frequency of big earthquakes afflicted civilizations in the last decades of the twentieth century? Is [...]

Paradise Still Lost in Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth”

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number5 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Synopsis Through Oprah Winfrey’s remarkable influence, motivational speaker and author Eckhart Tolle’s teachings have become a staple for the spiritually hungry. Tolle’s message, however, consists of an eclectic mix [...]

Deity Vs. Humanity

“Who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men” (Phil. 2:6–7).1 For centuries, the mystery of the Incarnation has served as a source of wonder for Christians [...]

How Do We Reconcile the Old and New Testaments?

Hank responds to a caller’s question about Israel’s blessings and curses under the Mosaic Covenant in the Old Testament, compared

How Was Jesus “Made” Sin?

A verse commonly misinterpreted by cultists is 2 Corinthians 5:21, where the apostle Paul tells us that God “made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (NASB, emphasis added). Based on this verse, for example, the Christadelphians argue that Jesus [...]

Gabriel’s Revelation

Synopsis In July of 2008 a flurry of academic journals and news sources reported a new archaeological artifact that might “shake our basic view of Christianity”—especially about first-century mes-sianic expectations and the resurrection accounts. The new find was a large stone tablet on which was written eighty-seven lines of Hebrew text in ink, but much [...]

Biblical Grounds for Divorce and Remarriage

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 33, number 1 (2010). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Synopsis Many people, especially Christians, have serious questions about divorce and remarriage. As the American family appears to be imploding with divorce, and as blended families become [...]

Witnessing to a Jewish Friend

The Bible Answer Man broadcast hosted by Hank Hanegraaff. For more information on Christianity, Cults, the Bible, and other related