(Protestia) Christianity Today has issued a correction and apology for publishing an article arguing that Jesus wasn’t nailed to the cross, with the author saying that he failed to consider Jesus’ interactions with Thomas in John 20:25 and, as a result, unintentionally “called into question the inerrancy of Scripture.”
Days ago, Daniel Silliman, the senior news editor of CT, wrote Was Jesus Crucified with Nails?, where Jeffrey P. Arroyo García, an ‘evangelical biblical scholar’ who teaches at Gordon College, insisted that Jesus likely wasn’t nailed to the cross but instead was merely secured with ropes when he perished. Silliman entertained this erroneous speculation, throwing a bit of cover and intrigued to help him make his case. Continue reading