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Michael Kruger: What If Our Bibles Don’t Have the Right Words?

19th July 2022

Michael Kruger, president of the Charlotte campus of the Reformed Theological Seminary and preeminent scholar of early Christianity, joins us to talk about the reliability of the copies and the canon of the New Testament.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, Blog, Books, History, Podcast, Solve, The Apologetics Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Bart Ehrman, Michael Kruger, Misquoting Jesus, New Testament, nomen sacrum, nomina sacra, Reformed Theological Seminary, Textual criticism

11th century codex of the Gospels

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: Who Really Wrote the Gospels?

14th February 2022

Who really wrote the Gospels? And why does it matter? Garrick and Timothy take on Bart Ehrman’s claim that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John couldn’t have written the Gospels that bear their names.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: author, Bart Ehrman, church history, defenestration, defenestration of prague, Gospels, holy prepuce, John, Luke, Mark, Matthew, New Testament, prepuce

Garrick Bailey and Timothy Paul Jones: The Logical Problem of Evil + Pop (U2)

12th January 2021

According to a survey of recent college graduates, the problem of evil is the issue that makes it most difficult for many of these graduates to trust in the truth of Christianity. These students’ struggles mirror the struggle that biblical scholar Bart Ehrman describes in his book God’s Problem: “I felt compelled to leave Christianity […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, music review, Music reviews, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Alvin Plantinga, Bart Ehrman, Bono, contingent, defense, free will defense, freewill defense, God Freedom and Evil, Irenaeus, logical problem of evil, necessary, no see’um argument, Pop, problem of evil, red panda, red pandas, soul-making defense, Staring at the Sun, theodicy, U2, Wake Up Dead Man

Apologetics: Who Wrote the Gospels?

17th July 2020

Open your Bible to the table of contents and take a look at the list of books in the New Testament. There, you’ll find the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John leading the list. But were Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John really the ones who wrote the Gospels? If so, how do we […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured, History, Learn Tagged With: authorship, Bart Ehrman, canon, Gospels, John, Luke, Mark, Matthew, New Testament

Peter Gurry and Elijah Hixson: Was the Bible Copied Accurately? + “You Belong to the City” (Glenn Frey)

25th October 2019

Has the Bible been copied accurately? Skeptics such as biblical scholar Dr. Bart Ehrman have suggested that it wasn’t. According to Bart Ehrman‘s book Misquoting Jesus, it makes no sense for Christians to refer to the Bible as God’s inspired Word “because we no longer possess the words that God supposedly inspired. … All that […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: Bart Ehrman, city, Elijah Hixson, Glenn Frey, Peter Gurry, Textual criticism, urban ministry

Jonathan Pennington: Truth and Testimony in the New Testament Gospels + “All Along the Watchtower” (Jimi Hendrix)

20th March 2019

According to bestselling biblical scholar Bart Ehrman, the New Testament Gospels “were not written … by people who were eyewitnesses, but by people living later.” Ehrman goes on to say that “sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic, or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option—legend.” And legend is the possibility for which Ehrman argues. But is it true that the circulation of stories by word of mouth necessarily results in changes that turn testimony into legend? That’s what Timothy Paul Jones and Garrick Bailey discuss with New Testament scholar Jonathan Pennington on the Three Chords segment of the show.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Audio, History, Podcast, Three Chords and the Truth: The Apologetics Podcast Tagged With: apologetics, Bart Ehrman, Faith, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, Jonathan Pennington, podcast, Richard Bauckham

Apologetics: How Can the Bible be Inerrant if Copyists Made Mistakes?

7th January 2018

How can the Bible be inerrant if there are variations among the manuscripts and even between different accounts of the same events? That’s the question we’ll explore together in this post. How Can We Have the Word of God If Some of the Words Are Different? I slumped in an unpadded pew, half-listening to the morning […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, featured Tagged With: apologetics, Bart Ehrman, Bible, New Testament, Scripture

Apologetics: Dealing with Discrepancies in the Biblical Text

8th January 2014

The content that I present in this video may also be found in my book Misquoting Truth. (c) 2008 Coral Ridge Ministries. Used by permission. Click here to purchase full DVD.

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Learn, Solve Tagged With: apologetics, Bart Ehrman, Bible, biblical criticism, Scripture

Apologetics: Was Scripture Modified to Oppose Women and Jews?

6th November 2013

According to Dr. Bart Ehrman, in his book Misquoting Jesus, there exists a category of New Testament alterations which includes changes that occurred because copyists “who were not altogether satisfied with what the New Testament books said modified their words to make them … more vigorously oppose heretics, women, Jews, and pagans.” Yet he fails to come […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Lead, Learn Tagged With: apologetics, Bart Ehrman, church history, Gospels, history, New Testament

Apologetics: Can We Trust a Copy of a Copy?

25th September 2013

  I slumped in an unpadded pew, half-listening to the morning Bible study. I wasn’t particularly interested in what the Bible teacher in this small Christian high school had to say. But, when the teacher commented that the Gospels always reported word-for-word what Jesus said, I perked up and lifted my hand. This statement brought […]

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Filed Under: Apologetics, Blog, Learn Tagged With: apologetics, Bart Ehrman, Bible, history, New Testament, Scripture

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