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The Alisa Childers Podcast

#124 New Insights into the Character of Jesus? with Tom Gilson

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Tom Gilson joins me to talk about his book, "Too Good to Be False: How Jesus' Incomparable Character Reveals His Reality." We talk about some insights into the character of Christ and what that can mean for our worship of and obedience to him. 

Transcript

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And it's especially important for those who follow the skeptics who say that Jesus,

0:04.6

Deity, never appears anywhere except in the book of John.

0:08.1

The use of authority, it's in Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

0:11.6

His avoidance of terms like our father in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and John.

0:17.6

He's acting like God.

0:37.8

Welcome to the Alisa Childers podcast.

0:40.2

My guest today is Tom Gilson. He's an author and speaker and the senior editor and ministry

0:45.6

coordinator of thestream.org. Now, he's written a book called Too Good to Be False,

0:50.5

how Jesus' incomparable character reveals his reality.

0:54.8

And this book claims to give us fresh insights about Jesus.

0:58.2

Now, I know that that could sound like a red flag.

1:00.3

Get weight, new information about Jesus.

1:02.3

We're not talking about new information about Jesus.

1:05.2

We're talking about looking at the information about Jesus that we have in a slightly different

1:10.8

way. And actually, it's a way that hasn't really been written about in about a thousand years.

1:15.5

This is a very interesting topic for me to get to today.

1:18.8

Tom, it is so great to have you on the show. Thanks for coming on.

1:22.4

Well, thanks for inviting me, Alisa. It's good to be here.

1:25.3

Well, there's so much commentary about the person of Jesus of Nazareth.

1:30.1

And many skeptics say, you know, this is just a story.

1:32.8

This is the event surrounding Jesus. We're just legendary developments.

1:37.2

People were trying to figure out a way to explain this.

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