Sunday Quote: F.F. Bruce on the Christ Myth

“Some writers may toy with the fancy of a ‘Christ-myth,’ but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar. It is not historians who propagate the ‘Christ-myth’ theories.”

- F.F. Bruce (The New Testament Documents, p. 123)
[HT: Eric]

James White vs. Dan Barker MP3: Was Jesus a Myth? Debate Audio

James White debates Dan Barker on the topic: Was Jesus a Myth? Video can be found over at Aomin.org. The debate took place at Newberg Christian Church. White's comments on Barker's "don't quote my book" objection is here, with video of the objection here.

Full audio can only be purchased at aomin.org. (2hr 42min)

Enjoy.

Check out James White's review of their first debate here.

A Brief Historical Critique of the Zeitgeist Movie

The Centre for Public Christianity has a number of great resources. One of them is a recent brief historical critique of the Zeitgeist movie with historian Dr. Chris Forbes.

Full MP3 Audio here. Watch the video here.

Other video resources here. Their podcast can be found here on iTunes.

Enjoy.

Analysis and Response to Zeitgeist

Alwaysbeready.com has a nice piece online: Analysis & Response to Zeitgeist, where you'll find some of the claims in the video followed by helpful responses and quotations by scholars, historians, world religion experts, Christian apologists and others as well as links to in-depth articles and books that offer a much more thorough refutation of many of the errors in the first part of the film.

Enjoy.

Jesus Never Existed? Resources for Study

Here are some good resources looking into the claims that Jesus never existed.
• Did Jesus Exist? - history of the Jesus Myth and a scholarly view
• Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Evidence for Jesus. by G. A. Wells
• Mike Licona's review of Brian Flemming's DVD The God Who Wasn't There
• Scholarly reactions regarding the "Christ-Mythers."
• ChristianCadre's Historical Jesus page
• J.P. Holding's Shattering the Christ Myth page
• Was Jesus Christ just a CopyCat Savior Myth?
• Was the Bible created by authorities to 'control' the common folk?
• Extrabiblical, Non-Christian Witnesses to Jesus before 200 a.d.

[HT: Truthbomb]

Enjoy.