51009.1 Endnotes Did Jesus Claim to Be God?

Did Jesus Claim to Be God?

  1. Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods (Nashville: Word, 2000), 39.
  2. J. I. Packer, Knowing God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1993), 189.
  3. The Hebrew Scriptures sometimes join Yahweh (Jehovah) with an additional word to emphasize God’s dealing with man. “Yahweh Elohim” and “Adonai Yahweh” are translated “Lord God,” and “Yahweh Sabaoth” is translated “Lord of hosts.” (C.I Scofield, The Scofield Reference Bible  (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 6, 983.
  4. Ray C. Stedman, Adventuring Through the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House, 1997), 479.
  5. Ego eimi is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew name Isaiah used to describe God in Isaiah 43:10, 11. Dr. James White notes, “The closest and most logical connection between John’s usage of ego eimi and the Old Testament is to be found in the Septuagint rendering of a particular Hebrew phrase, ani hu in the writings (primarily) of Isaiah. The Septuagint translates the Hebrew phrase ani hu as ego eimi in Isaiah 41:4, 43:10 and 46:4.” (http://www.aomin.org/EGO.html)
  6. C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2,000), 157.
  7. Packer, 198.
  8. Why I am a Christian, Norman L. Geisler, Paul K. Hoffman, eds, “Why I Believe Jesus is the Son of God” (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2001), 223.
  9. Packer, 57.
  10. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1972), 51.
  11. John Piper, The Pleasures of God (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2000), 35.
  12. Christians believe that there is one God who exists in three distinct, equal Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (trinity). No earthly analogy can adequately explain how one God can exist as three Persons. However, two scientific examples illustrate how one entity can exist in multiple forms. 1. Light exists as a duality, appearing in nature as both a wave and a particle. 2. The H20 molecule is one essence, yet exists as steam, water, and ice. The God of the Bible, however, is beyond our full comprehension, being infinite, eternal, immutable, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent.
  13. Lewis, God in the Dock, 80.

51010.1 Endnotes Did the Apostles Believe Jesus Is God?

Did the Apostles Believe Jesus Is God?

  1. Will Durant, “Caesar and Christ”, vol 3 of The Story of Civilization (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972), 563.
  2. A. H. McNeile, Introduction to the New Testament (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955), 463, 464
  3. The title Lord is freely used in both Testaments to refer to God and Jesus. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word for Lord was Adonai. In the Septuagint and the New Testament the word translated “Lord” is Kurios. Both Adonaiand Kurios were used for God by the Jews.” Josh McDowell & Bart Larson, Jesus: A Biblical Defense of His Deity(San Bernardino: Here’s Life, 1983), 33.
  4. Paul L. Maier, Ed, Eusebius, The Church History (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1999), 149.
  5. Although most early Christians believed in Jesus’ divinity, the church didn’t clarify what that meant until the Council of Nicaea in 325 A. D., when the Roman emperor Constantine convened church leaders together to deal with Arius’s view that Jesus was a created being. However, after an intense debate over the meaning of the apostles’ words about Jesus in the New Testament, all but two of 318 church leaders reaffirmed the majority Christian belief that he is fully God, co-eternal, co-equal and with the Father and Holy Spirit (See “Mona Lisa’s Smirk” at http://y-jesus.com/wwrj/2-da-vinci-conspiracy).
  6. See “Jesus.doc” at http://y-jesus.com/wwrj/4-are-gospels-true/ to discover the reliability of the New Testament
  7. Martin writes, “Contrary to the translations of The Emphatic Diaglott and the New World Translation (of the Jehovah’s Witnesses) the Greek grammatical construction leaves no doubt whatsoever that this is the only possible rendering of the text….Jehovah’s Witnesses in their New World Translation Appendix 773-777 attempt to discredit the Greek text on this point, for they realize that if Jesus and Jehovah are “One” in nature their theology cannot stand….” Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (Minneapolis, Minn: Bethany, 1974), 75.
  8. F. F. Bruce, The Deity of Christ (Manchester, England: Wright’s [Sandbach] Ltd., 1964
  9. F. F. Bruce, “The ‘Christ Hymn’ of Colossians 1:15-20,” Bibliotheca Sacra (April-June 1984): 101.
  10. D. Guthrie & J. A. Motyer, The New Bible Commentary: Revised (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1973), 1144.
  11. Bruce, ‘Hymn’, 101-102.
  12. Although the author of Hebrews is unknown, some scholars believe it was written by Paul.
  13. The Amplified Bible, Zondervan
  14. Kenneth S. Wuest, Word Studies in the Greek New Testament, Vol. II (Grand Rapids, MI:, Eerdmans, 1986), 41.
  15. John Piper, The Pleasures of God (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2000), 33.
  16. Norman Geisler & Peter Bocchino, Unshakable Foundations (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 2001), 297.
  17. J. I. Packer, Knowing God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press), 54.
  18. Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli, Handbook of Christian Apologetics (Downers Grove IL: InterVarsity Press, 1994), 152.
  19. “The Granville Sharpe rule of Greek grammar states that when two nouns are join by kai (and) and the first noun has the article and the second does not, then the two nouns refer to the same thing, Hence, great God and Savior’ both refer to Christ Jesus.” (The Moody Handbook of Theology, p. 225).

51011.1 Endnotes Is Jesus the Only Way to God?

Is Jesus the Only Way to God?

  1. Ravi Zacharias, Jesus Among Other Gods (Nashville, TN: Word, 2000), 14.
  2. Paul E. Little, Know Why You believe (Wheaton, IL: Victor, 1973), 131.
  3. See Jesus’ claims in “Did Jesus Claim to be God”
  4. http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Wolves/oprah-fool.htm.
  5. C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1970), 101.
  6. John 14:1-4.
  7. John 14:6.
  8. Acts 4:12.
  9. 1 John 5:11, 12.
  10. Romans 6:23. NCV
  11. Cited in, Swami Bhaskarananda, The Essentials of ____ (Seattle, WA: Viveka Press), 190.
  12. Ibid. 7.
  13. Ibid. 89.
  14. John 3:16.
  15. Romans 6:23.
  16. Ephesians 2:8, 9.
  17. Matthew 11:28.
  18. Isaiah 53:1-15.
  19. Isaiah 9:6, KJV.
  20. Zacharias, 163.
  21. http://y-jesus.com/wwrj/6-jesus-rise-dead
  22. Cited in Josh McDowell, Skeptics Who Demanded a Verdict (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1989), 85.
  23. Zacharias, Ibid.
  24. Ibid. 6.
  25. John 1:1-3, 14.
  26. Philippians 2:5-11; Romans 5:8.
  27. D’Souza, 286.
  28. John 1:12.
  29. Ravi Zacharias, Light in the Shadow of Jihad (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2002), 108.
  30. Matthew 11:28.

51018.1 Endnotes Is Jesus Coming Back?

Is Jesus Coming Back?

  1. Acts 1:10, 11.
  2. Matthew 24:27-31.
  3. Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (New York: Touchstone, 1957), 16.
  4. 2 Peter 3:4, NLT.
  5. Matthew 25:13.
  6. Matthew 24:3-14.
  7. Matthew 24:3-51.
  8. Luke 21:28.
  9. Titus 2:13.
  10. 2 Peter 3:8-9.
  11. Matthew 24:14.
  12. Matthew 16:13-17; Luke 4:16-21; 7:19-23.
  13. Matthew 24:1-2; Luke 13:34-35; 19:41-44; 21:20-24.
  14. Matthew 12:40; 17:22-23.
  15. Quoted in Josh McDowell, The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict(Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1999), 12.
  16. Peter Stoner, Science Speaks (Chicago: Moody Press, 1958.), 97-110.
  17. Matthew 24:1-14; Mark 13:1-37; Luke 21:5-38.
  18. Quoted in http://kloposmasm.wordpress.com/.
  19. http://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/return-christ/.
  20. Quoted in McDowell, 209.
  21. Peter Steinfels, “Jesus Died—And Then What Happened?” New York Times, April 3, 1988.
  22. Zechariah 14:4.
  23. Leviticus 16:2, 29-30.
  24. Zechariah 14:1-4.
  25. Ezekiel 36:24, NLT.
  26. Los Angeles Times, front page, May 27, 1967.
  27. Zechariah 12:3.
  28. Revelation 1:7.
  29. Zechariah 12:10.
  30. 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17.
  31. Titus 2:13.
  32. Revelation 21:3-15.
  33. C. S. Lewis, “Predictions of the Second Coming,” quoted in: http://www.atkinsmarketingsolutions.com/wp/2011/05/21/rapture-marketing-c-s-lewis-end-of-the-world-predictions/
  34. Luke 12:35-40.
  35. Matthew 25:1-13.
  36. Matthew 7:21-23, NASB.
  37. Matthew 7:22-23, NASB.
  38. John 1:12.
  39. Revelation 20:11-15.
  40. Revelation 22:12, NIV.
  41. Revelation 22:20.
  42. Ibid.

51019.1 Endnotes Is Jesus Relevant Today?

Why Jesus: Is Jesus Relevant Today?

  1. O: The Oprah Magazine, “Oprah talks to Madonna,” (January, 2004), 120.
  2. Quoted in Josh McDowell, The Resurrection Factor (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life Publ., 1981), 1.
  3. Quoted in William R. Bright, “Jesus and the Intellectual” (San Bernardino, CA: Here’s Life Publ., 1968), 33.
  4. Quoted in Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2002), 17.
  5. Quoted in Michka Assayas, Bono in Conversation (New York: Riverhead Books, 2005), 203.
  6. Soren Kierkegarrd, Philosophical Fragments, trans. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985), 26-28.
  7. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (San Francisco: Harper, 2001), 160.
  8. Ray C. Stedman, God’s Loving Word (Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House, 1993), 50.
  9. Quoted in Assayas, 204.
  10. R. C. Sproul, Reason to Believe (Grand Rapids, MI: Lamplighter, 1982), 44.
  11. New Testament, John 3:16
  12. Ibid., John 1:12
  13. Old Testament, Isaiah 59:2
  14. New Testament, Romans 5:8
  15. Assayas, Ibid.
  16. Ravi Zacharias, Jesus among Other Gods (Nashville: Word, 2000), 158.
  17. Martha T. Moore and Dennis Cauchon, “Delay Meant Death on 9/11,” USA Today, Sept. 3, 2002, 1A.
  18. Charles W. Colson, Born Again (Old Tappan, NJ: Chosen, 1976), 114.
  19. Ravi Zacharias, A Shattered Visage: The Real Face of Atheism (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2004), 155.
  20. Lewis, 56.
  21. Colson, 129

51013.1 Endnotes Was Jesus Married?

Was Jesus Married?

  1. Cited in NYDailyNews.com (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jesus-married-harvard-scholar-ancient-text-papyrus-refers-wife-article-1.1162571), “Was Jesus married? Harvard scholar says ancient text on papyrus refers to ‘my wife’”, Sept. 23, 2012.
  2. Cited in The NewYorkTimes.com (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us/historian-says-piece-of-papyrus-refers-to-jesus-wife.html?_r=1). “A Faded Piece of Papyrus Refers To Jesus’ Wife”, Laurie Goodstein, Sept. 18, 2012.
  3. The Wall Street Journal, “A Married Messiah?”, p. C4, Sept. 22-24, 2012.
  4. TheNewYorkTimes.com, Ibid.
  5. Cited on KMTV, Omaha, Nebraska, (http://www.kmtv.com/170405046.html), Fatima Rahmatullah, “Was Jesus Married? Ancient Papyrus Uncovered Refers to His ‘Wife’”, Sept. 19, 2012.
  6. Jaweed Kaleem, “Jesus’ Wife’ Research Leads To Suspicions That Artifact Is A Fake,” Huffington Post, Religion, Sept. 26, 2012 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/jesus-wife-suspicions-fake-artifact_n_1916932.html).
  7. Ibid.
  8. Ben Witherington, Biblical Archaeology Review, (2004), “Reviews,” 30 [3]:58-61, May/June.
  9. Barbara Kantrowitz and Anne Underwood, “Decoding ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ ” Newsweek, December 8, 2003, 54.
  10. Cited on KMTV, Ibid.
  11. Stanley Kutler, interview with Frank Sesno, “The Guilty Men: An Historical Review,” History Channel, April 6, 2004.

52001.1 Endnotes Has Science Discovered God?

Has Science Discovered God?

  1. Harrison, E. 1985. Masks of the Universe. New York, Collier Books, Macmillan, pp. 252, 263.
  2. An atheist believes God doesn’t exist. An agnostic believes we can’t know.
  3. Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage, 2000), 81-82.
  4. George Smoot and Keay Davidson, Wrinkles in Time (New York: Avon, 1993), 241.
  5. Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers, (London: W. W. Norton, 1992), 13.
  6. Ibid., 104.
  7. Ibid., 103.
  8. Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
  9. Jastrow, 14.
  10. Smoot and Davidson, 17.
  11. Stephen Hawking, The Illustrated A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1996), 156
  12. Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos (3rd ed.) (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2001), 224.
  13. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1990), 125.
  14. Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2001), 198.
  15. George Greenstein, The Symbiotic Universe (New York: William Morrow, 1988), 27.
  16. Ibid., 189.
  17. Jastrow, 105.
  18. Paul Davies, God and the New Physics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), 174.
  19. Fred Hoyle, “Let there be Light,” Engineering and Science (November 1981).
  20. Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions—The World As I See It (New York: Bonanza, 1931), 40.
  21. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDJ9BL38PrI
  22. Paul Davies, The Cosmic Blueprint (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988), 203.
  23. Francis Crick, Life Itself (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981), 88.
  24. Quoted in William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, eds., Signs of Intelligence (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2001), 108.
  25. Quoted in Gary Habermas, “My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism”: Interview with Antony Flew, Philosophia Christi, (Winter, 2005).
  26. John Boslough, Stephen Hawking’s Universe (New York: Avon, 1989), 109.
  27. Jastrow, 107.
  28. Margenau, H. and R. A. Varghese, eds. Cosmos, Bios, Theos: Scientists Reflect on Science, God, and the Origins of the Universe, Life, and Homo Sapiens (Open Court Pub. Co., La Salle, IL, 1992).
  29. Colossians 1:15-17, J. B. Phillips.
  30. John 3:16; John 14:19.

52002.1 Endnotes Does the Universe Have a Beginning?

Does the Universe Have a Beginning?

  1. Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage, 2000), 81-82.
  2. George Smoot and Keay Davidson, Wrinkles in Time (New York: Avon, 1993), 36.
  3. Greene, 81-82.
  4. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1990), 38-51.
  5. Greene, 83.
  6. Hawking, 39.
  7. Smoot, 80-83.
  8. Ibid., 187.
  9. Ibid., 240.
  10. Ibid., 241.
  11. Associated Press, “U.S. Scientists Find a ‘Holy Grail’: Ripples at the Edge of the Universe,” International
    Herald Tribune     (London), April 24, 1992, 1.
  12. Thomas H. Maugh II, “Relics of ‘Big Bang’ Seen for First Time,” Los Angeles Times, April 1992, A1, A30.
  13. Nightline with Ted Koppel, ABC, April 25, 1992.
  14. Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2001), 224.
  15. Roger Penrose, Shadows of the Mind (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 230.
  16. E. M. Leitch et al., “Measurement of Polarization with the Degree Angular Scale Interferometer,” Nature 420 (2002): 772-87; J. M. Kovac et al., “Detection of Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background Using DASI,” Nature 420 (2002): 772-87; Matias Zalarriaga, “Background Comes to the Fore,” Nature 420 (2002): 747-48.
  17. Gregg Easterbrook, “Before the Big Bang,” U.S. News & World Report special edition, 2003, 16.
  18. Hugh Ross, “Big Bang Passes Test,” Connections, Qtr 2, 2003.
  19. Paul Recer, “Newest Space Telescope: The Spitzer,” Seattle Post Intelligencer,December 19, 2003, A17.
  20. Smoot, 291.
  21. Ibid., 30.
  22. Ibid., 17.
  23. Ibid., 291
  24. Ibid. 86.
  25. Stephen Hawking, ed., Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time: A Reader’s Companion (New York: Bantam, 1992), 63.
  26. Bradford A. Smith, “New Eyes on the Universe,” National Geographic, January 1994, 33.

52003.1 Endnotes Why is Only Earth Suitable for Life?

Why is Only Earth Suitable for Life?

  1. Gregg Easterbrook, “Before the Big Bang,” U.S. News & World Report, special edition, 2003, 16.
  2. Paul Davies, Other Worlds (London: Penguin, 1990), 169.
  3. Dietrick E. Thompsen, “The Quantum Universe: A Zero-Point Fluctuation?” Science News, August 3, 1985, 73.
  4. Quoted in Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004), 131.
  5. Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2001), 224.
  6. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1990), 121–122.
  7. John D. Barrow and George Silk, The Left Hand of Creation: The Origin and Evolution of the Expanding Universe (New York: Basic, 1983), 206.
  8. Lawrence M. Krauss, “The End of the Age Problem and the Case for a Cosmological Constant Revisited,” Astrophysical Journal 501 (1998): 461–466.
  9. Ross, 53.
  10. Ibid., 187.
  11. Ibid., 187–193.
  12. Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards, The Privileged Planet (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2004), 132–138.
  13. Ibid., 132–138.
  14. Eugene Wigner, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Physical Sciences,” Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 13 (1960), 1-14.
  15. Ross. 175-199.
  16. Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee, Rare Earth (New York: Copernicus, 2000).
  17. William J. Broad, “Maybe We Are Alone in the Universe After All,” New York Times, (February 8, 2000), 1-4.
  18. Michael J. Denton, Nature’s Destiny: How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe (New York: The Free Press, 1998), 3-4.
  19. Joel Achenbach, “Life Beyond Earth,” National Geographic (January, 2000, Special Millennium Issue), 45.
  20. Hawking, 124.

52005.1 Endnotes Was Darwin Right About the Eye?

Was Darwin Right About the Eye?

  1. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989),1.
  2. Ibid.,12.
  3. Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black Box (New York: Free Press, 2003), 24.
  4. Charles Darwin, Origin of Species (New York: Bantam Books, 1999), 158.
  5. Behe, 22.
  6. Quoted in Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004), 199.
  7. Macnab, R. (1978), “Bacterial Mobility and Chemotaxis: The Molecular Biology of a Behavioral System,” CRC Critical Reviews in Biochemistry, vol. 5, issue 4, Dec., 291-341.
  8. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (Chevy Chase, MD, Adler & Adler, 1986), 328.
  9. Quoted in Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, 199.
  10. Michael Behe, “The Sterility of Darwinism,” Boston Review, February/March 1997.
  11. William Dembski, “Still Spinning Just Fine: A Response to Ken Miller”, William Dembski@baylor.ed 2.17.03, v.1.01.
  12. James Shapiro, “In the details …what?” National Review, (September 16, 1996), 62-65.
  13. Alan Sandage, “A Scientist Reflects on Religious Belief,” Truth: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Christian Thought, Vol. 1, (1985).
  14. Darwin, 156.
  15. Charles Darwin (1860) in letter to Asa Gray, F. Darwin, ed., The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol, 2, (London: John Murray, 1888), 273.