- Richard Dawkins, A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), 245.
- http://quotes.lifehack.org/quote/richard-dawkins/the-bible-should-be-taught-but-emphatically/.
- Cited in Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2000), 141.
- C. S. Lewis, The Inspirational Writings of C. S. Lewis: Surprised by Joy (New York: Inspirational Press, 1986), 122–3.
- C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1970 ), 101.
- J. I. Packer, Knowing God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993), 113.
- Citation from Surprised by Joy
- Genesis 1:1.
- Hebrews 11:3, J. B. Phillips.
- Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe (New York: Vintage, 2000), 81-82.
- Isaiah 40:21-22.
- George Smoot and Keay Davidson, Wrinkles in Time(New York: Avon, 1993), 17.
- Lawrence M. Krauss, “The End of the Age Problem and the Case for a Cosmological Constant Revisited,” Astrophysical Journal 501 (1998): 461–6.
- Hugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 2001), 175–99.
- Fred Hoyle, “Let there be Light,” Engineering and Science(November 1981).
- Edward Harrison, Masks of the Universe (New York: Norton, 1978), 116.
- Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1990), 125.
- John Boslough, Stephen Hawking’s Universe(New York: Avon, 1989), 109.
- Paul Davies, God and the New Physics (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983), 174.
- Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers (London: W. W. Norton, 1992), 107.
- To read the major arguments for the two different interpretations of yom, see Rich Deem, “Genesis Clearly Teaches That the Days Were Not 24 Hours,” Evidence for God, www.godandscience.org/youngearth/genesis.html; and James Stambaugh, “The Meaning of ‘Day’ in Genesis,” Institute for Creation Research,http://www.icr.org/article/meaning-day-gene.
- Gerald L. Schroeder, Genesis and the Big Bang (New York: Bantam, 1990), 85.
- 2 Peter 3:8, NCV.
- Francis Crick, Life Itself (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981), 88.
- Quoted in William A. Dembski and James M. Kushiner, eds., Signs of Intelligence(Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2001), 108.
- Ibid., 115.
- Quoted in Gary Habermas, interview with Antony Flew, “My Pilgrimage from Atheism to Theism,” Philosophia Cristi (winter 2005).
- Cited in http://www.wsj.com/articles/eric-metaxas-science-increasingly-makes-the-case-for-god-1419544568.
- R. K. Harrison, Introduction to the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1969), 201.
- “The discovery of the codified Laws of Hammurabi (ca. 1700 B.C.), the Lipit-Ishtar code (ca. 1860 B.C.), the Laws of Eshnunna (ca. 1950 B.C.) and the even earlier Ur-Nammu code have refuted these claims.” Cited in Ken Boa and Larry Moody, I’m Glad You Asked (Wheaton, IL: Victor, 1977), 97.
- Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews (New York: Harper, 1988), 27.
- Biblical Archaeology Society Staff, “The Tel Dan Inscription: The First Historical Evidence for King David from the Bible,” Bible History Daily, September 17, 2014,http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/artifacts-and-the-bible/the-tel-dan-inscription-the-first-historical-evidence-of-the-king-david-bible-story/.
- Lazar Berman, “Archaeologists Say They Have Found One of King David’s Palaces,” The Times of Israel, July 18, 2013, http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-say-one-of-king-davids-palaces-found/.
- Paul Johnson, “A Historian Looks at Jesus,” speech to Dallas Seminary, 1986.
- Bruce M. Metzger, The Text of the New Testament(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 39.
- Owen Jarus, “Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel,” Live Science, January 18, 2014, www.livescience.com.Note: Craig Evans, an expert on ancient texts, says, “A combination of carbon-14 dating, of studying the handwriting on the fragment and studying the other documents found along with the gospel…led the researchers to conclude that the fragment was written before the year 90.”
- Metzger, 36–41.
- http://normgeisler.com/
- Ibid.
- John A. T. Robinson, Can We Trust the New Testament?(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1977), 36.
- Cited in Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2004), 243.
- William F. Albright, “Toward a More Conservative View,” Christianity Today, January 18, 1993, 3.
- http://y-jesus.com/wwrj/1-jesus-real-person/.
- Rene Salm, “The Myth of Nazareth: The Invented Town of Jesus. Does it Really Matter?” December 22, 2009, http://www.nazarethmyth.info/naz2article.html.
- Associated Press, “First Jesus-Era House Discovered in Nazareth,” December 22, 2009.
- N. S. Gill, “Pontius Pilate,” About Education, http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/pontiuspilate/g/PontiusPilate.htm.
- Jennifer Walsh, “Ancient Bone Box Might Point to Biblical Home of Caiaphas,” com,August 31, 2011,http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44347890/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/ancient-bone-box-might-point-biblical-home-caiaphas/.
- Cited in Geisler and Turek, I Don’t Have Enough Faith, 256.
- Cited in Josh McDowell,The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1999), 61.
- Johnson, “A Historian Looks at Jesus.”
- Cited in “Are the Gospels True?” Y-Jesus, http://y-jesus.com/wwrj/4-are-gospels-true/1/.
- Cited in McDowell,
- Peter Steinfels, “Jesus Died – And Then What Happened?” New York Times,April 3, 1988, E9.
- C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (San Francisco, CA: Harper, 2001), 170.
- James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe, What If the Bible Had Never Been Written?(Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1998), 213.
- McDowell, 12–13.
- Deuteronomy 18:20-22.
- Romans 3:29, NLT.
- Deuteronomy 28:1, 15, 64, NCV.
- Amos 9:14-15, NCV.
- Ezekiel 36:16-23; Luke 21:24.
- Jeremiah 9:16.
- “Jerusalem,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem.
- Johnson, History of the Jews, 4.
- Ray C. Stedman, God’s Loving Word(Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House, 1993), 50.
- Isaiah 52:13—53:12; Zechariah 12—14.
- Isaiah 9:6, NIV
- Isaiah 7:14.
- Jeremiah 23:5.
- Micah 5:2.
- Isaiah 53:3.
- Psalm 41:9.
- Zechariah 11:12.
- Isaiah 53:7.
- Zechariah 12:10.
- Isaiah 53:12.
- Isaiah 53:9.
- Psalm 16:10.
- Luke 19:10.
- Portions of Isaiah 53, NCV.
- Randall Price,The Stones Cry Out(Eugene, OR: Harvest House, 1997), 280.
- McDowell, 79.
- “Isaiah 53: How Do the Rabbis Interpret This?” Hear Now!http://www.hearnow.org/isa_com.html.
- Rachmiel Frydland, “The Rabbis’ Dilemma: A Look at Isaiah 53,” Jews for Jesus,http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/v02-n05/isaiah53.(For more detail see http://wisdomintorah.s3.amazonaws.com/medialibrary/Isaiah-53-Rabbis-Commentaries.pdf)
- Zechariah 12:10, NLT.
- “Did Jesus Claim to Be God?” Y-Jesus, http://y-jesus.com/more/jcg-jesus-claim-god/.
- http://sciencespeaks.dstoner.net/Christ_of_Prophecy.html.
- John 19:34.
- Acts 1:11, NCV.
- Henrietta C. Mears, What the Bible Is All About, ed. (Ventura, CA: Regal, 1983), 291.
- Zechariah 14:2-3, 9, NCV.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale
- 2 Timothy 3:16.
- Ibid., 24.
- Cited in https://abrahamlincolnandthecivilwar.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/baltimore-black-delegation-gives-president-lincoln-a-bible/.
- John 3:16.
- John 10:10b,NCV.