Christianity Today has drawn massive scorn and ferocious condemnation from the Christian community after it published a story that claims Jesus Christ was not nailed to a cross.
“The Bible doesn’t say Jesus was nailed to a cross,” the faith-based magazine wrote on its X account. “One evangelical Bible scholar thinks the crucifixion may have been done with ropes.”
CT quoted Jeffrey P. Arroyo Garcia, a so-called evangelical Bible scholar who teaches at Gordon College.
“I don’t stand and say this, definitively, is how it happened,” García told CT. “I basically find it interesting. It could be there were nails, or it could be that there weren’t nails.”
However, the Bible clearly states that Jesus was in fact nailed to a cross.
As it was reported in John 20: “So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord.’ But he said to them, ‘Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.’”
The reaction on social media has been wild:
Please remove “Christianity” from your name
Why does CT hate Christianity?
Replace all your writers with 6-year olds from solid Christian families.
You could always count on this kind of blasphemous journalism from CNN and Time Magazine at Easter; hate to see CT turn Judas against its own readership.
Dr. Bill Smith, a medical doctor and devout Christian, called on the editors of the magazine to repent.
“This article is a direct attack on the doctrine of inerrancy, on the reliability of Scripture, and the very heart of Evangelism. An Evangelical scholar who attacks the testimony of the Evangelist. The leadership of CT showed extreme lack of judgment and discernment,” he wrote. (Dr. Russell Moore), before God I call on you to repent for an attack on the Gospel during Easter.”
Quite frankly any evangelical Bible scholar who claims the Bible got the facts of the crucifixion wrong is not an evangelical Bible scholar. Either that or he got his Bible training at a godless Ivy League divinity school.
And the editors at “Christianity Today” should consider rebranding itself as “Christianity Yesterday” because there’s nothing Christian about this modern-day version of “Christianity Today.”
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