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The Alisa Childers Podcast

#17 What About the "Lost" Gospels? With J. Warner Wallace

The Alisa Childers Podcast

Alisa Childers

Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.95.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that the New Testament Gospels weren't the only ancient texts written about the life of Jesus? How do we know that our biblical Gospels tell the truth about what Jesus did and said? Is the only reason we can't find these other Gospels in our Bibles because they were lost or suppressed? Is there anything we can learn from these extra-biblical accounts? I tackle these questions and more with my guest J. Warner Wallace on today's podcast.*Correction: in the podcast I stated that there are close to 6000 manuscripts for the gospels but that is actually the number for the New Testament as a whole. Sorry for any confusion.

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0:00.0

Hey friends, Elisa Childers here.

0:13.8

Did you know that the New Testament Gospels weren't the only Gospels that were written

0:18.1

about Jesus' life?

0:20.0

How do we know that the Gospels that are in our Bibles tell the truth about His life

0:24.4

and teachings?

0:25.8

Is there anything we can learn from these extra biblical or non-canonical Gospels?

0:30.4

We're going to talk about it with a special guest on today's podcast.

0:47.6

Today's guest is a cold case homicide detective, popular national speaker and best-selling

0:52.2

author, Jay Warner Wallace.

0:54.7

He was a conscientious and vocal atheist until he was 35 when he investigated the claims

0:59.4

of Christianity in very much the same way he investigated his cold cases.

1:04.4

The conclusion he came to is that Christianity is actually true, and ever since, he has

1:08.7

continued to take an evidential approach to the truth as he examines the Christian worldview.

1:14.4

So he's done some great investigative work on the subject we're going to talk about today,

1:19.1

which is what some people would call the lost Gospels or the non-canonical Gospels.

1:23.5

So he's going to help us make some sense out of these writings, what they are, and how

1:27.6

we as Christians can be knowledgeable and wise in the way that we interact with them.

1:32.3

So Jim, welcome to the show.

1:33.9

Thanks for having me back.

1:35.3

This is one of the most topics that hardly anybody with better pipe might told Susie we

1:39.2

were going to talk about the non-canonicals.

1:41.5

She's like a really cool, who in the world talks about those things?

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