- Packham, Richard
- An attorney.
- Articles
- General critique here
- Articles
- Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth
- Website by one Greg Kane that follows the "Jesus was stolen from pagan gods" school. We analyze it in great detail on my parody website, tektoonics.com. Summary points here.
- Pagitt, Doug
- Emergent gure. Comments here.
- Paine, Thomas
- Early American critic of Christianity. Comments and analysis of Age of Reason here.
- Palmer, Brett
- Past Till sycophant. Response to article accusing me of "hypocritical zeal".
- Palau, Luis
- Profile here.
- Patterson, Stephen
- Proponent of the Gospel of Thomas.
- Articles
- Paul
- Apostle to the Gentiles -- and to the intellectual as well.
- Articles
- Paul: Acts vs. Epistles
- Were Paul and Apollos unfriendly rivals? -- part of a reply to Earl Doherty
- A critique of Hyam Maccoby's re-interpretation of Paul as a con man who was influenced by Hellenism
- Is James rebutting Paul?
- What was Paul's "thorn in the flesh"?
- Did Paul think Jesus would return soon?
- On alternate views of Paul -- by Ken Schei, by Edgar Jones (voiceofjesus.org)
- How "non-Jesus" was Paul? [Off Site]
- Is Paul "anti-woman"?
- Articles
- Pentateuch
- For material on individual books, check the Scripture Indexes by book name.
- Perrin, Norman
- Review of Thomas: The Other Gospel.
- Perseverance of the Saints
- The P in TULIP. I do not agree with this petal.
- Articles
- Apostasy and Anxiety -- a negative finding for the doctrine of eternal security (perseverance)
- Articles
- Philistines
- Also called the Caphtorim or Cherethites, and almost universally regarded as having been from Crete, these guys were one of several "Sea Peoples" of the Aegean who made life tough in the Levant.
- Articles
- Are there anachronistic references to the Philistines in tne OT? We recommend a read of this item on anachronisms before you dip into this one.
- "Isn't 1 Samuel 5:9-6:12 actually sort of ridiculous?"
- Articles
- Phillips, Graham
- Review of The Virgin Mary Conspiracy.
- Phillips, Phil
- Review of Turmoil in the Toy Box here
- Philo
- Jewish historian and philosopher slightly contemporary with Jesus.
- Articles
- Why doesn't Philo mention Jesus? -- part of an article against Earl Doherty.
- Articles
- Pilate
- Pink, Arthur
- Popular author. Comments.
- Piper, John
- Popular preacher who should leave scholarship to the experts.
- Articles
- On a tornado as God's judgment
- Articles
- Piso family
- According to certain people, the actual authors of the NT. Right.
- Pittman, Howard
- Popular author. Comments on Placebo.
- Plotz, David
- Deputy director of the online magazine Slate. Plotz started a series called "Blogging the Bible" in which he reads the Bible straight through and offers reader-response comments. His reactions are no less than what we would expect from someone without any knowledge of the defining social, lingustuic, historical, etc. backgrounds of the text.
To his credit he admits he is not an expert, but it remains that this is a thoroughly irresponsible presentation. He has offered little or nothing we have not already covered in the past here, so we deem him worthy of no more than this note.
- Pliny the Elder
- Ancient science writer.
- Articles
- Why doesn't Pliny the Elder mention the darkness of the crucifixion? -- part of an article on Thallus.
- Articles
- Pliny the Younger
- Pagan author of a letter mentioning Jesus.
- Polygamy
- On this issue and the Bible. See here with reference to Truthbearer.org. Some other offiste articles: Does the Bible clearly teach monogramy?; one on the Christian ThinkTank plus another.
- Pope Leo X
- Contemporary of Luther and supposed source of a statement designating Christ as a figure of myth. Our analysis of that statement is here.
- Pornography
- All of these are off site.
- Articles
- The Pornography Plague by Kerby Anderson
- Articles
- Prayer
- Preston, Don
- Author of article giving false views on the concept of resurrection. See here for a reply.
- Price, Robert
- Biblical scholar with ought against his former faith.
- Articles
- Commentary on Jury Chapter 6
- Commentary on Jury Chapter 8
- Commentary on Jury Chapter 9, 2nd ed.
- Review of Deconstructing Jesus
- Review of The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man
- Reply to response to The Case for Christ
- Reply to "By This Time He Stinketh: The Attempts of William Lane Craig to Exhume Jesus"
- On 1 Cor. 15:3-11 as an alleged interpolation
- Review of Beyond Born Again
- For response to critique of The Impossible Faith, see here, material at end
- Review of Inerrant the Wind here.
- Articles
- Priene Inscription
- Roman inscription appealed to by some skeptics to say that the Gospels are propaganda; see here for a reply.
- Profanity
- For those who object to it in the Bible -- see here.
- Prometheus
- No, not the atheistic publisher; the mythical figure. Some folks say he's a copycat Christ. See here.
- Prophecy
- For defenses of authenticity of individual prophecies, seek by Scripture cite.
- Articles
- Introduction to typology [Off Site]
- Did the NT writers deceitfully or ignorantly use the OT? [Off Site] -- an essential read on the subject of Messianic prophecy in the NT and the hermenuetical models used by the NT writers
- Articles
- Prophet, Elizabeth Clare
- Watchman Fellowship overview
- Pseudonymity
- Could parts of the NT be pseudonymous? [Off Site]
- Putnam, Cris
- Purveyor of paranoid end times material. See comments here.