A Retired Prophecy Blog

Another objection to the Genealogy of Jesus as presented in Matthew and Luke is that Jesus couldn't become an Heir to the Throne of Davi...

My addressing the Genealogies of Jesus on this Blog has generally mostly focused on dealing with Luke's Genealogy for various reasons.  ...

The Gospel texts use the phrase "nigh to Jerusalem" (or "the city") to describe both the location of the Crucifixion (Jo...

[Update June 30 2021: I'm Abandoning this theory.  I was quite confused about the Geography of Sepphoris, and now I've noticed that ...

The claim that Jesus taught that is important to both Preterists and Bible Skeptics.  But, I've never seen a preterist try to debate a B...

"The earliest archeological remains of a synagogue building on the island of Delos in the Aegean indicate a late second-century or poss...

This verse is often brought up discussing whether The Bible implies a Flat Earth or Round Earth model. "It is he that sitteth upon th...

Because in Greek mythology the Morning Star was the son of the Dawn goddess Eos (Aurora to the Romans) the Greek Septuagint translators of I...

I hold that common view, but I don't argue it in the more common way that view is presented.  It's not about Heli being Joseph's...

First in the actual Greek text of Luke 2:2 the word translated Cyrenius is the last word and Syria the second to last word.  And the word fo...

I'm not even gonna go into the fact that the Historia Augusta 's historical reliability is questionable. The following passage is...

Atheists sometimes say that "Theophilus of Antioch wrote a History of the Wold from Adam to Marcus Aurelius and failed to mention J...

Though from the point of view of an increasing majority of archaeologists, there were always two distinct cultures in Canaan, a strong an...

Is a problem to chronology only if you forget Luke was written in Greek not Latin.  Syria in classical Greek writings often refers to more...

According to a passage found in existing manuscripts of Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews, (xx.9) "the brother of Jesus, who was ...

Almah is the word translated Virgin in the KJV of Isaiah 7:14.  Bible Skeptics like to assert this is a mis-translation (that had it's o...