12 Quick Questions about the Reliability of the Bible (Peter Williams)

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🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Have you ever struggled with believing in the reliability of the Bible? Ever wondered how Christians can be so sure about the text they have? In today's interview, Peter Williams responds to 12 frequently asked questions about the reliability of Scripture. Peter J. Williams is the principal of Tyndale House, Cambridge, the chair of the International Greek New Testament Project, and a member of the ESV Translation Oversight Committee. To learn more from Peter Williams, check out his book Can We Trust the Gospels? Read the full transcript of this episode. If you enjoyed this episode be sure to leave us a review, which helps us spread the word about the show! Check out Crossway's two new devotional podcasts starting January 1st: Daily Joy: A 365-Day Devotional for Women: Apple Podcasts & Spotify Daily Strength: A 365-Day Devotional for Men: Apple Podcasts & Spotify Complete this survey for a free audiobook by Kevin DeYoung!

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0:00.0	Have you ever struggled with doubts about the reliability of the Bible?
0:07.0	Maybe you've heard an interview with a famous skeptic, read a book filled with challenging questions,
0:12.0	or had a disconcerting conversation with a non-Christian friend or family member.
0:16.0	We've all been there, and we all know what it's like to feel like our trust in God's word has been shaken.
0:22.3	In our interview today, I'm throwing as many of those tough questions as I can at Bible scholar Peter Williams.
0:29.1	Peter serves as principal at Tyndale House in Cambridge, England, an international research institute,
0:34.9	home to one of the world's most advanced libraries for biblical
0:37.8	scholarship.
0:39.2	He's also the chair of the International Great New Testament Project and the author of Can
0:44.2	We Trust the Gospels from Crossway?
0:47.4	Let's get started.
0:53.8	Well, Peter, thank you so much for joining me again on the Crossplay podcast.
0:56.8	Pleasure to be with you.
0:58.2	So in my experience, most Christians, I know I've been here before, at some point in their
1:02.9	lives, they have questions and maybe even doubts about the reliability of the Bible.
1:08.0	I think we, whether from our own thinking about these questions to just hearing
1:12.6	skeptics, prominent skeptics, atheists in the media, questioning the Bible, explaining all
1:18.5	these problems with the Bible, it's easy for us to kind of start to wonder, can I really trust
1:23.9	this? And you've spent decades studying the Bible in the original languages.
1:28.2	You're a well-known Bible scholar. And so today we thought we'd ask you some common questions
1:32.7	that Christians often wrestle with when it comes to the reliability of the Bible.
1:37.6	So question number one, we don't have access to the original manuscript. So how can we be sure
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