1002: Defending Christianity - Dr. Frank Turek and Dr. Mike Licona Pt. 1
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2018
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Today on Mormon Stories Podcast we are interviewing Dr. Frank Turek—a Christian apologist, author, and speaker with Cross Examined and Dr. Mike Licona—a New Testament professor/scholar at Houston Baptist University. Both are highly sought after around the world for their efforts to provide scholarly and intellectual evidence that the Bible is true.
Today's episode will focus on making a scholarly case for belief in Christianity, including a response to our previous interview with Dr. Bart D. Ehrman. In this interview, we will attempt to address some of the same questions as we did with Dr. Ehrman, including:
- Did the historical figure we know as Jesus actually exist?
- How did the historical figure Jesus come to be viewed as divine/the Son of God?
- Who wrote the New Testament?
- Do important contradictions exist between the four gospels of the New Testament, and what does that tell us?
- How was the New Testament assembled?
- What are their thoughts on the historicity of the Book of Mormon and Mormonism as an authentic Christian denomination?
...and more.
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| 1:28.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host, |
| 1:33.0 | John Dillin. It is October 16th, 2018 and I am very excited for today's topic and today's |
| 1:42.0 | guest. |
| 1:43.0 | Many of you will remember that a few months ago I interviewed Dr. Bart Irman, the author of |
| 1:50.0 | Jesus Interrupted and several of the books, Ms. Queen Jesus, God's problem forged, how Jesus |
| 1:58.0 | became God. And we spent an hour talking to Bart Irman about his scholarship on the New Testament |
| 2:04.0 | and his findings, his research and his beliefs on things like, was there historical Jesus, was there |
| 2:14.0 | a person named Jesus who existed, you know, how did, you know, his view of how Jesus came to be |
| 2:21.0 | viewed as divine or the Son of God, who wrote the New Testament, how the New Testament was put together, |
| 2:26.0 | whether or not there are contradictions in the New Testament, especially the four gospels, how the New |
| 2:33.0 | Testament was assembled and changed over time. |
| 2:35.0 | And, you know, kind of his thoughts on the historicity of these sorts of things and on a belief in |
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