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7  Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea 8  and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. 9  And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him, 10  for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him. A lot of people come to confusion when it comes to the Bible, especially in recent years.  Some have thought it to be unreliable concerning the events it reports.  They’ve thought, for instance, that the later disciples of Christ made up stories about Him.  They’ve wondered if, perhaps, Mark is smaller because it has earlier, less fantastic stories about Jesus. The level of detail here points to eyewitness testimony.   The areas in vv. 7–8 are all geographically located around the area in which Christ...

Discussing Evangelicalism's attacks on Scripture (yes, you read that right), Dr. David Farnell took the stage at the Veritas Evangelical Seminary 2014 National Apologetics Conference on November 8th, 2014. Here's the video: Defending Inerrancy posted this video as well as partial transcript , should you want to read instead of/in addition to watching.

The New York Times reported it; long live Dan Brown.  Perhaps you’ve seen the news reporting a fragment containing the words, “And Jesus said to them, my wife….”  Wow – this would be the first text of antiquity ever discovered that says Christ was married, despite the claims of The DaVinci Code.  Are the walls of orthodox Christianity crumbling around us? Here are the quick facts: we have a Coptic (not Greek) fragment, of unknown origin, oddly, very rectangular in shape, dating to the fourth century, possibly to a region containing those other works of historical fiction we call spurious gospels, saying that Jesus has a wife.  Those are a lot of qualifiers for this find to overcome.  When we contrast this dubious papyrus segment to the historical strength bolstering the four biblical gospels, it’s hardly time to change the way we understand Jesus’ relationship to Mary. Here are some learned posts if you are interested in studying this issue: Evangelical Text...

James White has done a lecture on the reliability of the New Testament text, refuting those people like Bart Ehrman who provide inaccurate information about the New Testament. Listen to the lecture . Watch the lecture . (HT: Operation 513 )