Tag: Biblical Criticism

Did Jesus make a crucial historical blunder in the Gospel of Mark?

by Christian Research Institute | Sep 30, 2010 | Bible Answers | 0

One of the reasons cited by famed New Testament scholar and best-selling author Bart Ehrman for his transition from fundamentalist Christian to fundamentalist agnostic is that the gospel of Mark is riddled with factual and...

Were Mark and Messiah mistaken about mustard seeds?

by Christian Research Institute | Sep 30, 2010 | Bible Answers | 0

A tired old canard making the rounds these days is that the gospel of Mark and the God-man Messiah were both mistaken about the size of mustard seeds. The argument is typically framed as follows: Orchid seeds are smaller than...