Biblical Question

In today's podcast, we will discuss Jesus, "the Man of destiny." (This is number 11 of 12.) Jesus claims to have perfect control over His own life. His death, the circumstances surrounding His life, and death combined to form a persuasive argument that Jesus was something far more than a mere man; He was, in fact, a man of an inevitable planned destiny.

We have reason to expect that an ordinary man would have survived the ordeal of crucifixion had He been removed from the cross only six hours. But, remarkably, Jesus, after only six hours on the cross, announced with a strong voice that this was the very moment of His death, and immediately He died!

Our final argument for the resurrection of Christ lies in an appeal to the facts surrounding the conversion of Saul of Tarsus. The force of this argument lies in his manner of life in time past before he became a Christian when he was a persecutor of Christianity.

His persecution of the church, his sincere conviction of personal beliefs, and believing what he was doing was suitable. These combined produced a personality that any combination of human efforts could not reach. Yet, he converted to Christianity.

Now the abruptness of this change from a self-appointed exterminator of the Christian religion. To an exponent of the gospel and gospel, the preacher reveals a contrast of such extreme proportions that natural processes are inadequate to explain the change in the conversion that happened in his life.

We will continue our series, Historical Christian Evidence. This is the ninth in the series. In this podcast, we want to study the apostles' testimony as proof of the resurrection of Jesus. The apostles, obviously as witnesses to these, had seen the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy.

Now on the day of Pentecost, these men began to testify that Jesus Christ was indeed the Christ of prophecy. They preached to the Jews that Jesus was the Messiah and proved it satisfactorily with their testimony. And3,000peopleattheend of their preaching stepped forward for baptism for salvation and entrance into the church and the kingdom of God. So the church and Christianity began. It began on the ground of the apostles' testimony.

In this podcast, we want to see the apostolic testimony as one of the great proofs of the resurrection of Jesus. These men took their testimony from Pentecost, went throughout the world, and carried the resurrection message. And it was believed by Jews and Gentiles alike. So what's the force for the resurrection from the apostles' testimony?

This week's podcast will continue with the eighth in our series. Historical Christian evedince. This podcast looks at; the change in the apostles on the Day of Pentecost. With a change of such extreme proportions, natural processes are inadequate to answer the cause for that change!

Then due to the nature of the evidence, we understand it is reasonable to conclude; that this change was produced by the Holy Spirit Himself. In turn, it will reflect the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

In conclusion, the claim of the New Testament is on the day of Pentecost, a change in the apostles resulted from the direct intervention of the Holy Spirit.

This week's podcast will continue the Historical Christian Evidence series. Our past podcasts have prepared us: to present the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now nothing is to be assumed. All of our evidence comes from the New Testament.

The facts as we have them from John are four in number:

(1) the stone had been rolled back, the tomb was standing open,

(2) the tomb itself was empty of the body of Jesus,

(3) the grave cloths in which Jesus (was buried) were lying in the tomb, and

(4) it was Sunday, the first day of the week –(a fact not at all to be slighted. We will consider the evidence in this order, combining the first two facts into a single unit of study to avoid repeating the same line of argumentation.

We always want to keep in mind while we are studying historical Christian evidence what the proposition of our course is. Evidence is abundant from historical sources that can prove; that Jesus is the Son of God, and the Bible is the Word of God. There is an abundance of evidence coming from the historical New Testament. Jesus is everything He claimed to be, the Messiah. Jesus walked on water, changed water to wine, healed the sick, and raised the dead.

There is another event that took place. I can show you, that Jesus was resurrected, from the dead, and I can, as a fact of history, then resurrection implies you can open your Bible and say; I believe everything in this book. Now, it is because the resurrection is the supreme sign of the divine nature of Jesus. In today's podcast, we will begin the arguments for the resurrection of Jesus and then continue next week.

In today's podcast, we will discuss the integrity of the New Testament. That what you are reading in your New Testament is just what was written originally by inspired men. A legitimate area of inquiry since it has been centuries since the writings of the New Testament documents.

1. Is it possible that there have been corruptions that found their way into the text of Scripture?

2. The Bible has been copied many times over is it possible the person making the copy made a mistake?

The answer is yes! There have been errors of transmission made by copyists. Uninspired statements have even found their way into the text of Scripture. Now, this is dealt with by the science of textual criticism. These men, scholars, detect the error and then seek to restore the original text. In this podcast, we will compare the manuscript value of the New Testament documents with the manuscript value of some of the classics from history.

Today's podcast, we continue our podcast series of Historical Christian Evidence to prove the reliability of the New Testament. If we can show: that the New Testament is reliable in reporting the events taken place in the first century, whether we believe the Bible to be the Word of God or not, whether we believe Jesus is the Son of God or not, one thing is for sure, if the New Testament is reliable to report history. When it says Jesus made claims, He did. When it says Jesus did certain deeds, He did.

Today's podcast is to give two more reasons for believing that the New Testament is historically reliable.

In today's podcast, we begin our consideration of the historical reliability of the New Testament. There is abundant evidence from historical sources, which is adequate to prove Jesus is the Son of God and the Bible is the Word of God. Please join us as we continue the third in the series of Christian Historical Evidence.

Please join us this week as we continue the second in our series of, Historical Christian Evidence. "Non-Biblical writers" will be our focus in this podcast.