Christians have come to expect it. Every Christmas or Easter, media outlets send out slick and well-produced torpedoes aimed at the Christian faith. They manufacture spurious claims about the Bible that could lead many astray.

A recent PBS documentary is one example. The NOVA television special, The Bible’s Buried Secrets, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bible/, claims that Abraham and Sarah did not exist, the Israelites believed God had a wife, and the Scriptures are not historically accurate.

Meanwhile, talk show host Bill Maher mocked God and Christianity with the release of his documentary film Religulous (a play on the words “religion” and “ridiculous”). In a movie trailer, Maher joked that when it comes to prayer, he “gets” the concept of “one man hearing everybody [around the world] murmuring to him at the same time.”

In response to these pre-Christmas assaults on Christianity, and to present compelling evidence for the divinity of Christ, CRM is producing an intriguing TV special, Is Jesus God?, that airs December 14 on The Coral Ridge Hour.

Is Jesus God? features Bible scholars who examine Old Testament prophecies about Jesus Christ (there are more than 300) that were fulfilled in His birth, life, death, and resurrection. These experts include Dr. Paul Maier, Professor of Ancient History, Western Michigan University; Murray Tilles, a Jewish believer and Founder of Light of Messiah Ministries; Dr. Sam Lamerson, Associate Professor of New Testament Theology at Knox Theological Seminary, and others.

False Claims Unraveled

The program unravels the claims of freethinkers like Robert Ingersoll who, in the nineteenth century, declared: “There is no prophecy in the Old Testament foretelling the coming of Jesus Christ . . . not one.”

Dr. Paul Meier scoffs at that claim. “In the case of the Old Testament documents,” he said in an interview for the documentary, “we have many prophecies regarding the Messianic figure that are directly fulfilled by Jesus in the New Testament.”