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#220 Was Jesus Just a Myth? - Trent Horn

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 11 December 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Actually, lots can be known about the historical Jesus, and Christians can give confident rebuttals to those who claim Jesus is just a myth. Trent defends Jesus from the mythicists. How confident are you that Jesus was a real man? Trent Horn, next. Cy: Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. I am Cy Kellett, your host, and we are joined once again by our good friend Trent Horn. Trent, who is Apologist Extraordinaire here at Catholic Answers and author of many, many books including, Why We’re Catholic. The super bestseller, I should say, the super bestselling book, Why We̵…

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How confident are you that Jesus was a real man?

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Trent Horn next.

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Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus.

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I am Cy Kelle at your host and we are joined once again by our good friend Trent

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Trent, who is apologist extraordinary here at Catholic Gancers and author of many

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many books including Why We're Catholic, the super bestseller, I should say, the super

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best selling book, Why We're Catholic, and most recently, the counterfeit Christ's.

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Today we're going to talk a bit about Jesus. As a matter of fact, I will ask Trent right now. Was Jesus a myth?

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If by myth you mean an individual who never had historical existence, no.

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We believe very clearly we affirm that Jesus' true God and true man,

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and that as Galatians 4.4 says,

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who's born of a woman, born under the law,

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that he existed and really did things in the historical

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world in which we reside.

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That's a bedrock principle of our faith.

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So thank you for joining us for focus. That's all we got to say. Well maybe we could spend a few minutes just digging into that a little bit. So there's this thing. There is, it's common to see this on the internet's on the YouTube's, that Jesus is a myth and people will have,

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they'll make little videos about it and stuff, but there's also, I guess there's a wide range of arguments about the this man is a myth so what

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is this whole thing of mythicism let's start right there yeah what are the mythists claim

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mythicism is the view.

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Now, among historical scholars and New Testament

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scholars, you'll see a wide range of people

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who have different views of the reliability

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