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Is Jesus really God?

• Is Jesus Christ God? (Biblical proof on the Christian Answers Network)
• Is Jesus Christ the Creator God?
• 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)
• Romance at the heart of the universe

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 AD200 (Christian Think Tank).
• For related questions about the New Testament, see
  Q&A: Bible

Did Jesus Christ really rise from the dead?

• 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)

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

• The Isaiah 7:14 passage (Technical, Christian Think Tank)

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?

• Miracles and Science (Dr Jonathan Sarfati, Sydney Supercamp 2001, 53 minutes)
• 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’s 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? Is the Gospel of Thomas 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)

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)

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

Did Jesus accept Genesis as written?

• Jesus on creation
• Did Jesus say He created in six days?
• Jesus Christ on the infallibility of Scripture
• But from the beginning of … the institution of marriage?