Timothy Paul Jones

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Timothy Paul Jones

Culture: The Value of a Life in Panem [from 2012 review of The Hunger Games]

“The future shape of the world,” Baptist theologian R. Albert Mohler has noted, “appears to be a worldview competition between Christianity, Islam, and Western secularism.” The Hunger Games film and books present us with a world where the worldview competition is over in North America, and Western secularism has won. Centuries in the future, the […]

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Theology: Want to know more about the end times? Here’s help!

What does the Bible say about the return of Christ? What about all those prophecies from the Old Testament? What is the millennium? Have you been struggling with sorting out all the views of the end times? Not sure where you land? There is a resource that will help! For a limited time, Rose Publishing […]

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Apologetics: Was Scripture Modified to Oppose Women and Jews?

According to Dr. Bart Ehrman, in his book Misquoting Jesus, there exists a category of New Testament alterations which includes changes that occurred because copyists “who were not altogether satisfied with what the New Testament books said modified their words to make them … more vigorously oppose heretics, women, Jews, and pagans.” Yet he fails to come […]

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Apologetics: Can We Trust a Copy of a Copy?

  I slumped in an unpadded pew, half-listening to the morning Bible study. I wasn’t particularly interested in what the Bible teacher in this small Christian high school had to say. But, when the teacher commented that the Gospels always reported word-for-word what Jesus said, I perked up and lifted my hand. This statement brought […]

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Proclamation: “Don’t Worry. I Read the Book. He Doesn’t Stay Dead.”

One rule in our household is that, if a book is turned into a movie, everyone must read the book before watching the movie. Our oldest daughter was eight years old when C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was turned into a feature film. In the weeks leading up to the movie’s […]

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Apologetics: What Are the Chances That Jesus’ Body Was Left On the Cross?

:: The Obscenity of the Cross in the Ancient World :: With few exceptions, even the most skeptical scholars admit that Jesus was crucified—and with good reason. Not only Christian authors but also the Roman historian Tacitus mention the crucifixion of Jesus. It’s highly unlikely that first-century Christians would have fabricated such a shameful fate […]

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Apologetics: Why the Acts of Paul and Gospel of Peter Aren’t On Your Schedule for Reading the Bible in a Year

Perhaps you, like many others, are planning to read through the Bible this year. If you do, you’re likely to ask yourself at some point, “Weren’t there other Gospels and letters that didn’t make it into the Bible? Why am I reading these texts instead of those?” So what about those other Gospels? Well, from […]

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Apologetics: Why Some Books Made It Into the New Testament and Others Didn’t

It’s New Year’s Eve! Tomorrow, many of you will begin reading through the Bible in a year. Before you do, I want to plant a question in your mind: Why these books? Why spend the year reading through these ancient texts and not some other documents? What’s so important about these books that owe their […]

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Apologetics: How The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife May Have Been Forged

Earlier this week, I mentioned that the news of the fragment known as Gospel of Jesus’s Wife will end “quite possibly with the revelation that the fragment was a forgery in the first place.” My rationale for this suspicion was and is insufficient to advance any sort of argument. I am no expert in Coptic […]

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Apologetics: Why the Singleness of Jesus Makes the Best Sense of the Evidence

“It is an embarrassing insight into human nature that the more fantastic the scenario, the more sensational is the promotion it receives and the more intense the faddish interest it attracts,” biblical scholar Raymond Brown wrote nearly two decades ago. “People who would never bother reading a responsible analysis of the traditions about how Jesus […]

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Sunday on Perspectives Radio in Orlando

Earlier, I recorded an interview with Allan Dempsey of WTLN for Perspectives Radio. WTLN is based in one of my family’s favorite locations: Orlando, Florida. Unfortunately for my family’s hopes of making it to Sea World twice in one year, this was a telephone interview. Allan and I discussed why it’s essential for every Christian […]

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