Press Release: New evidence for God
There is a new press release about ‘God: new evidence’ at www.facingthechallenge.org/press.php.
This may be freely reprinted in your magazine, newspaper or web site.
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What can we learn from churches in developing countries?
The ‘Seize the Day’ podcast for March is now available. In it we’re talking to Elaine Storkey, President of Christian relief agency Tearfund, about what the church in the west can learn from the church in developing countries.
Go here to listen.
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God: new evidence
God: new evidence’ is a new apologetics video series from Focus, responding to some of the claims of Richard Dawkins and the ‘new atheists.’
Dawkins claims that God is a delusion and that religious faith is evil. But what if the scientific evidence itself is telling a different story? Over the past fifty years scientists have [...]
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What the Roman historian Suetonius says about the first Christians
Suetonius was a
Roman historian and an official under the emperor Hadrian.
In his 'Life of Claudius',
he says (25:4):
As
the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation
of Chrestus [= Christ?], he [Claudius] expelled them from
Rome.
This expulsion
took place in AD 49, and is identified with the event described
by Luke in Acts
chapter 18 verse 2.
Then, in
his 'Lives
of the Caesars', Suetonius says (26:2) of the fire of Rome
in AD 64, that:
Punishment
by
Nero
was inflicted on the Christians, a class of men given to a
new and mischievous superstition.
Although Suetonius does not provide direct historical evidence for
Christ, he does provide evidence for the existence of a significant
Christian community in the capital of the empire by the 60s AD (i.e.
just after the end of the book of Acts). He also provides possible
evidence for the existence of a Christian community there as early as
AD 49.
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