https://proofandgospel.com/ Daily writing on the evidence — prophecy, archaeology, patterns. en Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:11:27 +0000 https://proofandgospel.com/read/isn-t-the-bible-just-a-copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy https://proofandgospel.com/read/isn-t-the-bible-just-a-copy-of-a-copy-of-a-copy Objections Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 The “telephone game” objection: two thousand years of hand-copying, so how could a word survive? It sounds obvious. The comparison quietly breaks. https://proofandgospel.com/read/why-the-resurrection-accounts-don-t-match https://proofandgospel.com/read/why-the-resurrection-accounts-don-t-match Objections Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 How many women went to the tomb? How many angels? The four accounts differ — and that difference is doing the opposite of what skeptics think. https://proofandgospel.com/read/did-jesus-actually-exist https://proofandgospel.com/read/did-jesus-actually-exist Objections Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Not “was he the Son of God” — just: was there a man. It is the most-searched doubt about Christianity, and the answer surprises people on both sides. https://proofandgospel.com/read/the-air-you-breathe https://proofandgospel.com/read/the-air-you-breathe Patterns Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 The values you think are simply obvious — human equality, the worth of the weak — would have baffled a first-century Roman. They came from somewhere. Most people never notice. https://proofandgospel.com/read/he-is-here-reading-sixty-six-books-as-one-book-about-one-person https://proofandgospel.com/read/he-is-here-reading-sixty-six-books-as-one-book-about-one-person Patterns Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 The claim isn't that Jesus is mentioned everywhere. It's that the whole library leans in one direction — and the people who wrote it couldn't have known that. https://proofandgospel.com/read/the-prophecy-problem-what-isaiah-53-was-doing-seven-centuries-early https://proofandgospel.com/read/the-prophecy-problem-what-isaiah-53-was-doing-seven-centuries-early Prophecy Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 Skeptics have one clean escape from this passage — argue it was written after the fact. A cave near the Dead Sea closed that exit in 1947. https://proofandgospel.com/read/the-names-they-said-were-invented https://proofandgospel.com/read/the-names-they-said-were-invented Archaeology Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 For over a century, the standard critical position was that several people in the biblical record never existed. Then, one at a time, their names came out of the ground. https://proofandgospel.com/read/forty-authors-fifteen-centuries-one-argument https://proofandgospel.com/read/forty-authors-fifteen-centuries-one-argument Patterns Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 The interesting question about the Bible's unity is not whether it exists. It's what could have produced it. https://proofandgospel.com/read/what-the-romans-wrote-about-jesus https://proofandgospel.com/read/what-the-romans-wrote-about-jesus Sources Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 The strongest early evidence for Jesus's existence comes from people with no reason to help — and one famous passage that Christians should stop quoting the way they do. https://proofandgospel.com/read/who-decided-which-books-belong-in-the-new-testament https://proofandgospel.com/read/who-decided-which-books-belong-in-the-new-testament History Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0000 The popular version has a fourth-century council voting on the canon. That is not what happened, and the real story is better for the case it's usually used against.