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The trouble with this is that the Bible doesn’t have many signs of fraud at all. (For instance, ancients may not have considered pseudepigraphic works to be deception, current historians do) Somehow, some way, there must be fraud, because the Bible claims the resurrection of Jesus happened and the miracles happened and all of these other things happened, and critical scholars say – no, those things did not happen.Īnd that means the Bible must somehow be fraudulent, and would have to be intentionally fraudulent based on 21st century standards. the Gospels are not written by eyewitnesses of Jesus’ resurrection, the miracles recorded in the book of Acts by Luke either didn’t really happen, or they weren’t really recorded by first century eyewitness Luke, a companion of Paul, but somebody writing much later. Expressed another way, the majority of critical scholars who do not believe that Jesus rose from the dead or the other supernatural claims of the Bible must therefore conclude that the Bible is incorrect in all that it affirms, and very likely fraudulent at least in some ways – i.e. Most critical scholars seem to believe that either the New Testament represents an embellishment of the real facts of the historical Jesus’ life, or it represents a fraud committed by the writers of the New Testament, or some combination of both.
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They would, of course, differ on the more supernatural and spectacular claims of the Bible, including the miracles of Jesus and His resurrection, and the healings and miracles that accompanies the preaching of the Word by the apostles after Jesus ascended into Heaven. So most critical scholars would acknowledge the existence of Jesus and that the Bible records some actual history. I recognize that there are a very few scholars and a few skeptics who do not believe that Jesus existed at all, but the number of people who hold to that view is quite small, and it seems to be in the realm of denying the moon landing, or something like that – unwarranted skepticism.
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Among those who don’t believe what the Bible says about Jesus, most would at least acknowledge that the New Testament documents the rise of the Christian church based on the teachings of a Jewish man named Jesus. Editor’s note: Actually, in revisiting the transcript, I didn’t briefly explain, so let me ramble for a moment – I think this is important. In my last read through of the Gospel of John, I noticed something interesting that I’ve never heard anybody talk about, and I believe it is a significant point in favor of the Bible being genuine history and not an attempt to mislead, nor the results of a legend grown out of hand. (That sentence was an homage of sorts to our guy John the Baptist, who says in this chapter, “‘The one coming after me ranks ahead of me, because he existed before me,” Which is a bit of a confusing line until you understand that Jesus is eternal, even though John was born on Earth first.) Not sure if I should apologize here, or what, but just wanted to let you know – we usually shoot for around ten minutes, and sometimes – like today, we fall short of that goal by going way over it. This is going to be a bit of a long podcast, and I will try to make it up in the next two episodes. We want to invite as many people as possible to join us in daily Bible reading, so help spread the word and share the podcast! Don’t forget about our web-page, – contact page, show notes, transcript and more– Click here for our Bible 2021 reading plan\ Welcome to new listeners in Our goal is to encourage DAILY Bible reading, so you can jump in at any time and join with us. We are reading John 1 today and our focus is on Is Jesus Really God? Was Jesus Created By God? When Did Jesus Begin? Where Was Jesus Born? Was the Bible Written To Convince People That Jesus Was God? We are a daily 10ish minute podcast, where we will dig in to the truth of the Word of God by reading one Bible chapter a day and discussing it. Hello everybody and welcome in to episode #288 of the Bible 2021 podcast.