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A Book That's Too Important to Ignore
Respond Podcast Episode 2 - “A Book That's Too Important to Ignore”
Presenter: Stuart Gray, @stuhgray
1. The Gospels report important historical details in the life of Jesus of Nazareth
1.1 They were written very close to the events compared to other documents of antiquity
1.2 Every author has a position of bias, and so it does not make them an unreliable source of information
1.3 The Gospels get historical details right:
Names and locations are correct in the geography of the time
It’s unlikely for a document to get little details right, but big details (Jesus’ miracles) wrong
1.4 The Gospels record undersigned coincidences
Subtle agreement between Gospel texts on trivial details
2. Jesus claimed to be God in this historical account (forgave sins, adopted divine titles)
3. God authenticated Jesus’ radical claim to divinity by raising him from the dead
The evidence shows:
He died by Roman crucifixion
His tomb was found empty
Jesus’ disciples claimed he rose from the dead and appeared to them
Saul of Tarsus changed from Christian persecutor to Christian evangelist
Jesus’ brother James dropped his skepticism and became a Christian leader
4. Jesus taught the inspiration and divine authority of scripture
Our Old Testament
He set things up for the writing of the New Testament
5. Since Jesus is divine, his endorsement of the Bible carries the authority of God
References for this episode:
Gospel Truth, John Dickson, Undeceptions Podcast, episode 7, https://undeceptions.com/podcast/gospel-truth.
Jonathan Morrow, Questioning the Bible 11 Major Challenges to the Bible’s Authority, (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2014), 215 – 224.
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Respond Podcast Episode 2 - “A Book That's Too Important to Ignore”
Presenter: Stuart Gray, @stuhgray
1. The Gospels report important historical details in the life of Jesus of Nazareth
1.1 They were written very close to the events compared to other documents of antiquity
1.2 Every author has a position of bias, and so it does not make them an unreliable source of information
1.3 The Gospels get historical details right:
Names and locations are correct in the geography of the time
It’s unlikely for a document to get little details right, but big details (Jesus’ miracles) wrong
1.4 The Gospels record undersigned coincidences
Subtle agreement between Gospel texts on trivial details
2. Jesus claimed to be God in this historical account (forgave sins, adopted divine titles)
3. God authenticated Jesus’ radical claim to divinity by raising him from the dead
The evidence shows:
He died by Roman crucifixion
His tomb was found empty
Jesus’ disciples claimed he rose from the dead and appeared to them
Saul of Tarsus changed from Christian persecutor to Christian evangelist
Jesus’ brother James dropped his skepticism and became a Christian leader
4. Jesus taught the inspiration and divine authority of scripture
Our Old Testament
He set things up for the writing of the New Testament
5. Since Jesus is divine, his endorsement of the Bible carries the authority of God
References for this episode:
Gospel Truth, John Dickson, Undeceptions Podcast, episode 7, https://undeceptions.com/podcast/gospel-truth.
Jonathan Morrow, Questioning the Bible 11 Major Challenges to the Bible’s Authority, (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2014), 215 – 224.