Best Historical Argument for the Resurrection and Why Scholars Can't Dismiss It | Wesley Huff Ep 232
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
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I've wanted to have this kind of conversation for a long time. Wesley Huff is a New Testament historian who studies ancient manuscripts, and he is exactly the kind of thinker I wish I had found before I became a Christian. The logical part of my brain needed someone who could walk through the evidence without assuming you already believe it.In this episode we get into how close modern Bibles actually are to the original manuscripts and why we are getting closer to the original text over time, not further away. Why the ESV is not a dumbed-down Bible and why words in the King James have actually changed meaning. Whether a Christian can lose their salvation and what the Scripture says about it. The best historical case for the resurrection and why liars make bad martyrs. What speaking in tongues actually was in the New Testament and why it requires a translator. The Gnostic Gospels, the Gospel of Thomas and why early Christians already knew these were fake. What Gnosticism actually teaches and why it is making a quiet comeback today. And why studying under people who don't believe Christianity only made Wesley's faith stronger.Find Wesley at ApologeticsCanada.com and on Peterson Academy.—Research Sites—Newsletter/website: https://mikhailapeterson.comFuller Research Foundation: https://fullerresearch.orgLion Diet: https://liondiet.comBiotoxin: https://biotoxin.comPrescribed-Harm: https://prescribed-harm.com—Socials—Meta: https://facebook.com/mikhailapete​rsonpodcastX: https://x.com/MikhailaFullerInstagram: https://instagram.com/mikhailapetersonTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mikhailapeterson
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| 0:00.0 | There are other messianic movements in the ancient world, but I bet you couldn't name any of the individuals involved in those. And there's a reason why we're asking questions about Jesus of Nazareth and not Simon Barculcva. Wesley Huff, welcome to my podcast. It's a pleasure to be here. I am a trained historian. I work primarily in the area of New Testament manuscripts. Oh, that's cool. One of the points that I make when I often do presentations on this is that as time goes on, |
| 0:24.1 | we're not getting farther away from the original wording of the Bible. |
| 0:27.1 | We're actually getting closer to it. |
| 0:28.2 | How does the Bible compare to other ancient documents that we do trust? |
| 0:31.7 | I think it depends on what we mean when we say trust and compare. |
| 0:35.6 | Sounds like my dad. |
| 0:37.0 | Speaking in tongues in the New Testament is almost exclusively an actual language. |
| 0:43.1 | The English Bible is changed, but it's changed for the sake of clarity, not corruption. |
| 0:47.3 | If you evaluate what Jesus' claims actually are about himself, he's either lying through his teeth, |
| 0:51.9 | he's either a lunatic, or he's the Lord of the |
| 0:54.7 | universe who actually validated the claims that he made about who he is by rising from the dead. |
| 0:59.4 | The people who rise from the dead have more credibility and authority than people who don't |
| 1:02.9 | rise from the dead. |
| 1:10.5 | Leslie Huff, welcome to my podcast. |
| 1:12.4 | It's a pleasure to be here. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm really excited to talk to you. |
| 1:15.7 | I know we just had you film a course for Peterson Academy, which I'm so thrilled about. |
| 1:21.7 | I think I first saw you. |
| 1:23.2 | I saw you before you went on Rogan, but I saw some of your stuff on Instagram and I was like, |
| 1:33.7 | yes, this is the kind of thing that would have helped me, like, the logical part of my brain before I became a Christian. |
| 1:35.8 | And I didn't really see a lot of that or really any of that online. |
| 1:39.9 | I probably could have dug deeper, but I wasn't a Christian, so I wasn't digging that deep. |
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