Author name: Matthew Mittelberg

“God didn’t need to kill someone to be ‘happy’ with humanity. What kind of God would that be? Awful. Horrific.”1  – Rob Bell   “This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” – 1 John 4:10  Despite the challenges raised against it, the theory […]

What if I told you that the most extraordinary claim in history—one that billions stake their eternities on—rests on evidence you can examine for yourself? Does that sound hard to believe? After all, Jesus of Nazareth was born in ancient Judea over two thousand years ago. And we’re not just talking about the existence of

Published March 25, 2024 Amidst the egg hunts, chocolate bunnies, and barely edible sugar-covered marshmallows, it’s easy to forget the real meaning behind Easter. For Christians, Easter is about more than just pastel colors and family gatherings—it’s about the physical resurrection of a Jewish carpenter 2,000 years ago in Judea. This belief stands at the

Matthew Mittelberg Responds to the New York Times Interview, “Reverend, You Say the Virgin Birth Is ‘A Bizarre Claim’?”   On Easter Sunday a few years ago I read the New York Times article Reverend, You Say the Virgin Birth Is ‘a Bizarre Claim’? I felt compelled to respond, because as well-meaning as Reverend Serene

This article first appeared on biblestudytools.com, November 2018   “To rewrite the history books…Constantine commissioned and financed a new Bible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of Christ’s human traits and embellished those gospels that made Him godlike. The earlier gospels were outlawed, gathered up, and burned.”1   This passage, from the bestselling Dan Brown novel The