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Mark D. Roberts

The following is an excerpt from my new book, Can We Trust the Gospels? Investigating the Reliability of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Without exception, my grad school teachers echoed Professor MacRae’s conclusions about the historical limitations of the New Testament Gospels. In fact, several faculty members made him look rather conservative. I did learn…

Today’s post, as well as several posts to come, are excerpts from my new book, Can We Trust the Gospels? Investigating the Reliability of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. I grew up in a solid evangelical church. The Gospels were assumed to be not only historically accurate but also inspired by God. In my teenage…

Recently I read The Velvet Covered Brick: Christian Leadership in an Age of Rebellion. As you may suspect from the subtitle, this book was written in the aftermath of the 60s, when traditional notions of leadership had been tossed aside, often in favor of chaos. The author of this book, Howard E. Butt, Jr., was…

Part 10 of series: god is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens: A Response Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Christopher Hitchens loves science. Rightly, he understands that science has enabled human beings to understand our world in astounding ways. In many ways he sees science as replacing religion in human experience. For…

Excerpt The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. Psalm 135:15 Click here to read all of Psalm 135 Prayer O Lord, I don’t worship literal idols. I don’t have silver or gold statues of gods before which I bow down. But I am caught up in a culture…

Part 9 of series: god is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens: A Response Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Yesterday I began to express my concerns about Christopher Hitchens’s tendency to ridicule people with whom he disagrees, especially people of faith. I explained that, in my experience, a debater resorts to ridicule…

Part 8 of series: god is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens: A Response Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Christopher Hitchens is an engaging writer, a master of clever rhetoric. Please understand that I’m not using “rhetoric” here in a derogatory manner. I respect the person who is a master of words,…

Part 7 of series: god is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens: A Response Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series Yesterday I began looking at some of the many misunderstandings found in Christopher Hitchens’s book, god is not Great. Today I’ll examine a few more before I press on to further considerations of…

Part 6 of series: god is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens: A Response Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series In my last three posts I’ve shown that Christopher Hitchens, in his book god is not Great, makes fifteen errors in his discussion of the New Testament and related scholarship. As I explained,…

Part 5 of series: god is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens: A Response Permalink for this post / Permalink for this series So far I’ve shown nine errors made by Christopher Hitchens in his treatment of the New Testament in god is not Great. Today I’ll add six additional errors. Hitchens Wrong About the Augustan…
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