The virgin birth of Jesus Christ perplexes many people. Why is it such an important belief?

What could a Christian say in response? Well, wisdom often leads us to follow a certain course of action over many other options. For…

Did Jesus claim or imply that he was anything more than a prophet? Or did his followers transform him into the Son of God many years later?

Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?

The way the Gospel accounts use correct place names shows that they were based on reliable information from first hand testimony.

A response to the controversial claim that Jesus had a wife.

What does the oldest fragment of the New Testament tell us?

Dr John Dickson describes the key sources for our knowledge of the life of Jesus, assessing them from the perspective of an historian.