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The Counsel of Trent

#755 - DIALOGUE: Jesus' existence and ancient non-Christian testimony

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Trent sits down with John, the "Godless Engineer" to discuss the lack of references to Jesus in ancient non-Christian sources and what that tells us about the existence of Jesus.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:07.4

Happy Memorial Day, everyone.

0:09.3

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:10.9

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist, Trent Horn.

0:13.6

Originally, I was going to take Memorial Day off because, well, it's a holiday.

0:17.8

And number two, I also wanted some time to prep because I have a dialogue next week with

0:22.9

Tony Annet.

0:23.9

He is a Catholic economist on the issue of climate change.

0:27.9

I should Catholics believe about climate change and how should we respond to this?

0:33.1

And Tony and I will be offering two different perspectives on that issue.

0:37.0

So I'm very excited about that.

0:38.9

But I thought, you know what?

0:40.2

There is something I could share with you all today that I think would be very helpful.

0:44.0

Recently, I had a dialogue with John, the Godless Engineer, on the question of the non-Christian

0:50.6

sources for Jesus.

0:51.9

So these ancient first century documents and the alleged silence in these sources, sources

0:59.0

that people, you'll hear atheists say, well, why didn't all of these ancient historians

1:03.7

write about Jesus during his own lifetime or during the first century?

1:07.6

So I've heard that argument a lot.

1:09.2

I wanted to talk with John about it.

1:11.0

I've shared this with my patrons already and they seemed to really like it.

1:15.2

So I thought I would share it with you all.

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