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Apologetics: Fragments of Otherwise Unknown Gospels

26th November 2019

Gnostic Gospels and other unorthodox texts receive a lot of attention in popular media. The Gospel of Judas and the forged Gospel of Jesus’ Wife both became major news stories, for example, and a wide array of Gnostic texts are mentioned in novels like The Da Vinci Code that feed on bizarre conspiracy theories. It’s worth remembering, however, that there are […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, History, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, Gnostic, gnostic gospels, Gospels, Oxyrhynchus

Apologetics: An Overlooked Difference between the New Testament Gospels and Gnostic Gospels

19th November 2019

Richard Bauckham points out a distinction between the New Testament Gospels and most of the Gnostic Gospels which—while rather obvious when one reads the Gnostic Gospels—is frequently overlooked: The [New Testament] Gospels are biographical narratives whereas most of the Gnostic Gospels are post-resurrection revelations. Typically in Gnostic Gospels Jesus appears to the disciples after the […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, History, Solve Tagged With: Gnosticism, Gnostics, gospel, Richard Bauckham

Eric Johnson: How Can a Good God Allow Evil in the World? + “Free” (Stryper)

18th November 2019

How can a good God allow so much evil and suffering in the world? And why do some people seem to suffer so much more than others? According to a recent survey of college students, the problem of evil is the question about Christianity that college students find most difficult to answer. This week, Eric […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Canons of Dort, eric johnson, pelagianism, problem of evil, semipelagianism, soteriology, stryper, theodicy

Apologetics: The Providence of God in Persecution

12th November 2019

In his article “For Whom Were the Gospels Written?,” Richard Bauckham points out that a small minority group experiencing alienation and opposition in its immediate social context could compensate for its precarious minority position locally by a sense of solidarity with fellow believers elsewhere and a sense of being part of a worldwide movement destined […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Book reviews, History, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, Gospels, New Testament Gospels, Richard Bauckham

Peter Gurry and Elijah Hixson: Mistakes Apologists Make About Textual Criticism + “Learning to See” (Van Halen)

4th November 2019

Finally, it’s the long-anticipated Van Halen episode, which manages to feature not only Eddie Van Halen and Alex Van Halen but also another important Dutch-born “Van”: Reformed theologian Cornelius Van Til! Plus, New Testament textual critics Elijah Hixson and Peter Gurry are back with us to discuss the mistakes that people defending the Christian faith […]

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Peter Gurry and Elijah Hixson: Was the Bible Copied Accurately? + “You Belong to the City” (Glenn Frey)

25th October 2019

Has the Bible been copied accurately? Skeptics such as biblical scholar Dr. Bart Ehrman have suggested that it wasn’t. According to Bart Ehrman‘s book Misquoting Jesus, it makes no sense for Christians to refer to the Bible as God’s inspired Word “because we no longer possess the words that God supposedly inspired. … All that […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Bart Ehrman, city, Elijah Hixson, Glenn Frey, Peter Gurry, Textual criticism, urban ministry

Jonathan Pennington: What Are the New Testament Gospels and Why Should We Trust Them? + “We Are the World” (USA for Africa)

15th October 2019

According to bestselling religious scholar Reza Aslan, the New Testament Gospels “are not, nor were they ever meant to be, a historical documentation of Jesus’s life.” The Gospels are, Aslan claims, fictional compositions from early Christians who re-imagined a Jewish revolutionary named Jesus as an ethereal Christ of faith. But is it really reasonable to read […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Ethiopia, Gospels, Jonathan Pennington, Michael Jackson, Pennington, USA for Africa, We Are the World

Doug Blount: What Is the Relationship Between Evidence and Faith? + “Jack and Diane” (John Cougar Mellencamp)

4th October 2019

“Faith is,” according to Christopher Hitchens, “the surrender of reason.” But is faith actually the antithesis of reason and evidence? That’s the question Garrick and Timothy explore in the first half of this week’s episode with Doug Blount, who completed master’s and doctoral degrees in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, an institution that may be found—according to some reports—within the borders of Indiana.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: adolescence, apologetics, atheism, Doug Blount, Faith, G. Stanley Hall, Hoosier, Indiana, Jack and Diane, James Dean, John Mellencamp, reason, Richard Dawkins, Summer of ‘69, teenager

Grady Adkins and Joshua Swindall: What Christian Beliefs Do College Students Struggle to Defend? + “Don’t Stop Believin'” (Journey)

13th September 2019

In this special back-to-school episode, Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones are joined by Dr. Grady Adkins and Dr. Joshua Swindall, two researchers who have spent the past year exploring which specific Christian beliefs are the most difficult for college students to believe and to defend.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Faith, Jona..., Journey, Marvel, Paula White

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: Three Chords and the Truth Live with Five Oaks Church

2nd September 2019

In this special episode of Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey join the student ministry at Five Oaks Church, a radical band of young believers who gather near the metropolis of Minneapolis in the wild and crazy land of Minnesota. Students from Five Oaks Church ask questions […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, Learn, Podcast, Solve, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, canon, capos, creation, Five Oaks, hallucination, hallucination hypothesis, Kyser, live, Minnesota, New Testament, Old Testament, old-earth creation, problem of evil, resurrection, swoon, swoon theory, theodicy, wrong tomb, young-earth creation

Sean McDowell: Did the Apostles Really Die for Their Faith? + “Dust in the Wind” (Kansas)

1st July 2019

One of the strongest evidences for the truth of the resurrection of Jesus is the martyrdom of his apostles in the decades that followed his death–or at least that’s what many Christian apologists have claimed. But is this claim sustainable on the basis of historical evidence? Did nearly all of the first followers of Jesus […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Christian rock, crucifixio..., crucifixion

Sean McDowell: Resurrection, Sacrifice, and Why Sean McDowell Didn’t Love Avengers: Endgame + “Hotel California” (The Eagles)

4th June 2019

Sean McDowell joins Garrick and Timothy to talk about love, sacrifice, superheroes, and resurrection. Then, Garrick and Timothy go looking for transcendent truth in the Grammy Award-winning classic “Hotel California.” Along the way, they talk about Sehnsucht, plagiarism, and that one time when Timothy was looking for the founder of the Church of Satan but couldn’t find him.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, History, Learn, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Avengers, Avengers: Endgame, cross, Eagles, Endgame, Hotel California, Iron Man, love, Marvel Cinematic Universe, resurrection, sacrifice, Sean McDowell, Spider-Man, The Eagles

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: Three Chords Goes to the Movies: Avengers: Endgame

3rd May 2019

In the 1960s, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby began creating comic book storylines that were interconnected in a shared universe and told a single story through many individual stories. In the early twenty-first century, that’s what Marvel Studios decided to do through the films that became the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The first of these films was released in 2008. Now—eleven years and twenty-two films later—all of these storylines have culminated in a single film, Avengers: Endgame. In this special episode of Three Chords and the Truth, Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones take a careful look at Avengers: Endgame.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Faith, Gospels, podcast, sup..., superheroes

Rob Plummer: How Did Judas Iscariot Really Die? + “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” (Blue Öyster Cult)

26th April 2019

One of the most difficult dilemmas in the entire Bible has to do with how Judas Iscariot actually died. According to Matthew’s Gospel, Judas Iscariot hanged himself, and priests purchased the field where he died for 30 pieces of silver. But, according to the book of Acts, Judas fell headfirst in a field that he had acquired and his intestines burst out. So which is it, and what does this mean for how we read the New Testament? Today, in the Three Chords segment of the program, Dr. Robert Plummer joins Timothy and Garrick to discuss the fate of Judas Iscariot. In the Truth segment, your intrepid cohosts discuss a Christian theology of death by examining “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” by the Blue Öyster Cult.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: (Don’t Fear) the Reaper, apologetics, Blue Oyster Cult, Captain America, Eddie Money, Faith, Gospels, Judas, Judas Iscariot, Marvel, Milford Oyster Festival, Rob Plummer

Culture: Comic-Book Superheroes in a Christian Worldview

23rd April 2019

“Comics are the new Bible,” film critic Anne Billson recently declared, “and devotees never tire of seeing their idols save the world.” Her elevation of comic books to canonical status in the culture is overstated, but I think she may be close to the truth in suggesting that part of the current appeal of comics is […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, Movie Reviews Tagged With: Batman, Bono, C.S. Lewis, Captain America, DC, Francis Schaeffer, Iron Man, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Schaeffer, superheroes, Superman, Thor, Tolkien, U2, Worldview

Tom Schreiner: The Earliest Christian Confession about the Resurrection + “Cat’s in the Cradle” (Harry Chapin)

18th April 2019

Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Every aspect of the Christian faith hinges on this single claim. If Jesus was raised from the dead, something divine has intersected human history in the person of Jesus. If Jesus never existed or if he stayed dead, everything about the Christian faith is a lie. On this Holy Week episode of Three Chords and the Truth, New Testament scholar Dr. Thomas Schreiner joins Garrick and Timothy to talk about what Paul says about the resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: 1 Corinthians 15, apologetics, Cat Stevens, Cat's in the Cradle, Harry Chapin, Red Sovine, resurrection, Tom Schreiner, Ugly Kid Joe

Rob Plummer: Are There Historical Evidences of Supernatural Signs On the Day that Jesus Died? + “American Pie” (Don McLean)

12th April 2019

According to the New Testament Gospels, the death of Jesus was accompanied by all sorts of signs and wonders, including supernatural happenings connected with the temple in Jerusalem. But is there any evidence outside the New Testament that any of these events really happened? As it turns out, there could be. That’s what Garrick and Timothy explore in this episode with renowned New Testament scholar Dr. Rob Plummer.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: 1969, Altamont, American Pie, apologetics, Buddy Holly, cross, crucifixion, Daily Dose of Greek, destruction of Jewish temple, destruction of temple, Don McLean, Gospels, Helter Skelter, Jewish temple, Rob Plummer, Rolling Stones, temple, temple veil, The Beatles, The Crickets, The day the music died, Under My Thumb, Woodstock

Todd Miles: Jesus, Superman, Captain America, and Other Resurrected Superheroes + “The Great American Novel” (Larry Norman)

5th April 2019

So what do Superman, Captain America, Professor X, and Jesus Christ all have in common? According to the canonical accounts of their lives, each one has been raised from the dead. So why is it that, even in fiction, humans yearn for heroes who die and return to life? That’s one of the questions that Timothy Paul Jones explores in this episode with cohost Garrick Bailey and Western Seminary professor Todd Miles, author of the B&H Academic book Superheroes Can’t Save You. Then, in the second half of the program, Garrick and Timothy go digging for God’s truth in the music of Larry Norman, the father of Christian rock.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Captain America, Christian Contemporary Music, Christian rock, comic books, DC, Faith, Hank Hill, Jesus rock, King of the Hill, Larry Norman, Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe, podcast, resurrection, secularism, secularity, Superman

Timothy Paul Jones: Is There Enough Historical Evidence to Believe Jesus Was Really Raised from the Dead? + “Spirit in the Sky” (Norman Greenbaum)

29th March 2019

Atheist Richard Dawkins has defined faith as “a state of mind that leads people to believe something—it doesn’t matter what—in the total absence of supporting evidence.” But is the evidence for Christian faith really that weak? On this week’s episode of Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast, bestselling apologist Timothy Paul Jones and theologian Garrick Bailey explore historical evidences for the resurrection of Jesus Christ; then, in the second half of the show, they take a look at the theology of “Spirit in the Sky.”

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Norman Gree..., podcast, Spirit in the Sky

Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey: The Cross and the Lynching Tree + “The Star-Spangled Banner” (Jimi Hendrix)

22nd March 2019

What happened to the body of Jesus after his death on the cross? According to the New Testament Gospels, his body was buried in a tomb and raised on the third day. And yet, according to some scholars, the body of Jesus was abandoned and consumed by wild beasts. So how do we know that Jesus was actually buried? That’s one of the questions that we’ll explore in the first half of the program. In the second half, we’ll search for truth in a song that Jimi Hendrix played at Woodstock and discover a yearning for justice that God has placed in every human heart that leads us to protest injustice. Then, we’ll reach inside the Infinity Gauntlet and pit Charles Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters against Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: African American, apologetics, cross, crucifixion, Gospels, James Cone, Jim Crow, Jimi Hendrix, lynching, podcast, protest, Star-Spangled Banner, Woodstock

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