Introduction to Christian Evidences, Revised Edition

Updated and revised edition by Ferrell Jenkins, Retired Chair of Biblical Studies, Florida College

Contents:

• Introduction
• Proposition and Methodology
• The Christian as an Apologist
• The Divided Field of Knowledge

Part One: Theism – Evidence for the Existence of God

• Is It Possible to Know God?
• The Way God Has Revealed Himself
• Introduction to Theism
• The Origin of Matter
• Evolution and Special Creation
• Evolution at Variance With the Bible
• Evidences for the Existence of God
• The Beliefs of Atheism

Part Two: The Bible – The Evidence of the Book Itself

• The Unity of the Bible
• The Bible – Its Profound and Rational Doctrine
• The Inspiration of the Bible
• The Purity of Bible Ethics
• Situation Ethics
• Archaeology and the Bible
• Agreement of Book and Land
• From Ancient Manuscripts to Modern Versions

Part Three: Prophecy and Its Fulfillment

• Introduction to Fulfilled Prophecy
• Balaams Prophecy Concerning Israel
• The Documentary Hypothesis
• Israel in Prophecy
• Egypt in Prophecy
• Nineveh in Prophecy
• Babylon in Prophecy
• Tyre in Prophecy
• Messianic Prophecies

Part Four: Jesus Christ – the Man

• Jesus Christ – “Who Do You Say That I Am?”
• Jesus Christ – The Universal Character
• Form Criticism and the Jesus Seminar
• Early References to Jesus Outside the New Testament
• Jesus and Miracles
• Are the New Testament Documents Historically Trustworthy?

Part Five: Jesus Christ – His Resurrection

• “If Christ Has Not Been Raised”
• His Resurrection – the Witnesses
• The Witness of Monuments
• The Empty Tomb
• Argument From the Conversion of Saul