A reader writes: Question: An atheist has claimed that Jesus’s conversation with Nicodemus couldn’t have happened because it’s a greek word that has two meanings, critical to the story, and Jesus didn’t speak greek. I know neither greek nor aramaic, and according to some english, so any thing you happen to know would be useful. [...]
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The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, recently printed a speech by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron commemorating the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. I was a little disappointed that, in its brief introduction to the speech, it didn’t mention the Catholic alternative to the King James—the Douay-Rheims Version, which actually was finished in 1609, two years [...]
A reader writes: I am a Protestant and love listening to Catholic Answers Live. I am hoping you can help me out with the papal bull “Unigenitus” which appears to be condemning the idea of personal Scripture reading, etc. The way it’s worded doesn’t make it appear as if it is saying ‘we are worried [...]
You often hear that Jesus and the apostles quoted from the deuterocanonical books of the Bible–those that aren’t in the Protestant Old Testament. Did they? If not, what does the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament tell us about the canonicity of those books? In Acts 8 Luke describes a situation where a group [...]
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A reader writes: "For it has 'seemed' good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and froom blood and fromw what is strangled and froum unchastity" (Acts 15: 28-29). This is taken from the [...]
Yes! It's true! A major supernatural event will be occurring *this* Saturday, May 21, 2011! I'm *not* kidding! Harold Camping–president of the Protestant radio outreach known as Family Radio–has been predicting for some time that the long-awaited Rapture will occur on May 21st of this year. Of course, he's made similar predictions before. He famously [...]
A few days ago I blogged about my discovery that the Christmas Proclamation of the Birth of Christ has a not-so-great translation in the United States. The same day I made that unfortunate discovery, I also made a fortunate one! As I mentioned previously, we have multiple lines of evidence converging to show that Jesus [...]
