Join Jon as he dives into a new topic on the Ultimate Question podcast - eyewitness testimony, bias, and authorship.

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One last episode on historiography for you! In this episode, Jon uses Author Motivation, Coherency through Other Events, and Double Similarity to further prove the reliability of the New Testaments historical record of events.

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Produced by Caroline Escobar

This episode of Ultimate Questions includes attestations and substrata of foreign language…woah. Come learn more with apologist Jon Topping.

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Timing, coherency, and embarrassment are three historiographical methods of determining the reliability of a document’s content. In this episode, Jon uses these methods to help us study the history of the New Testament.

Produced by Caroline Escobar

Sound & Editing by Laura Saad

In this episode, Jon looks at the reliability of the New Testament. Why bother putting your faith in a 2,000-year-old book written by fishermen?

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Apologist Jon Topping introduces the topic of the podcast - the believability and basics of the Christian faith. He explores how he personally came to know and believe in Jesus.

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I've heard many atheists say there are no arguments for God's existence. The problem with that is that there have been arguments for God's existence for literally thousands of years. Here's a contemporary version of an ancient argument for God - the Cosmological Argument for God's Existence. This argument deals with the idea of causation, and how everything that exists came about, and shows that something like God must exist in order to explain the existence of all the universe.

What you know is definitely important, but we should also focus on how we convey what we know. It's scary to walk up to someone and share your faith. In this talk, I go through some ways of having meaningful conversations about difficult topics.

There’s a controversial topic within Christianity, which gets some Christians intellectually stimulated, others confused and doubtful, and others… well… angry. The concepts of God’s foreknowledge, predestination, and election, are all addressed in this talk, with a specific focus on whether God picks and chooses who will go to hell.

Jon Topping spoke at an interfaith dialogue, representing Christianity. The other two speakers were from the atheist/agnostic/humanist perspective, and the Islamic faith. This talk is addressing what the Christian concept of God is, with the background assumption that the audience would be primarily Muslim, with possibly some atheists/agnostics.