1003: Defending Christianity - Dr. Frank Turek and Dr. Mike Licona Pt. 2
Mormon Stories Podcast
Dr. John Dehlin
4.5 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2018
⏱️ 73 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 | All right, we're halfway done and then I've got some other questions but you guys are being |
| 1:32.0 | great so thank you so far. Listeners please feel free to post questions or comments. |
| 1:36.0 | We've still got a lot of people tuning in so don't hesitate to ask questions or comments. |
| 1:40.0 | Okay, so let me ask, you know, the evangelical Christians, the baptists that I grew up with, for example, |
| 1:50.0 | held to this idea that the Bible was perfect, that it was the inherent word of God, that unchangeable, |
| 1:57.0 | mighty, flawless, perfect, etc. And so, you know, they would not agree that there were any flaws |
| 2:06.0 | or problems or blemishes at all. It was the perfect unrefined word of God. I'll ask you first, Mike, |
| 2:13.0 | is that how you see the Bible, the New Testament? |
| 2:18.0 | I'd be happy to comment on that but that's probably more of Frank's area than mine but I'm happy to comment on it but maybe I'd just rather supplement what Frank says. |
| 2:27.0 | That's okay with you. All right, Frank, you get to go first on this one. |
| 2:31.0 | Well, I think that we can all acknowledge their areas of the Bible we don't understand and there are differences as Bart rightly brought up in your |
| 2:40.0 | interview with him. You know, how many, who got to the tomb first, what was the order? He said, compare the resurrection accounts and you'll see differences and that's true. |
| 2:49.0 | You will see differences. But I don't think that creates any problem for the Christian because I think that's what you should expect when you see eyewitness testimony. |
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