Can I Trust the Bible? with Dr. Andy Steiger

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In an age of growing skepticism and hostility toward the Bible, are there any good reasons to take it seriously? Dr. Andy Steiger, president of Apologetics Canada, returns to the program to discuss, 'Can I Trust the Bible?'—a brand-new video series he co-created with Wesley Huff, defending the Bible’s reliability. In this episode, Frank and Andy dive into pressing questions like:* Should Christians engage with secular platforms?* How has Wes Huff’s debate with Billy Carson and recent interview with Joe Rogan influenced Apologetics Canada?* What is Bart Ehrman getting wrong about New Testament manuscripts?* How do we know the Pauline epistles were written early?* What did plagiarism look like in the ancient world?* Are there actual “mistakes” in New Testament manuscripts?* Why aren’t the Apocrypha and Gnostic gospels in the Bible?* Are extra-biblical sources for Jesus more reliable than the Bible?Be sure to check out Wes and Andy's new video series along with even more great content on the Apologetics Canada website, including infographics, new podcast episodes, online courses, recommended resources for children, and MUCH more!Resources mentioned during the episode:WEBSITE: https://apologeticscanada.com/ (https://apologeticscanada.com/)VIDEO SERIES: https://bible.apologeticscanada.com/ (https://bible.apologeticscanada.com/)WES HUFF INFOGRAPHICS + OTHER HELPFUL CONTENT: https://apologeticscanada.com/resources (https://apologeticscanada.com/resources)

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, have you heard skeptics say that the Bible, well, the New Testament
0:10.3	documents in particular, have more errors in the manuscripts than there are words in the New
0:16.9	Testament? Have you heard that? Has that, if you're a Christian, kind of alarmed you? Have you heard
0:23.1	that there are other gospels out there? I mean, you know, the Da Vinci Code from 20 years ago had that
0:27.9	that very popular book said, oh, there's all these other gospels and the church just decided
0:33.5	the gospels they wanted to leave out because they didn't agree with them, but there are other
0:37.9	Gospels out there. Why weren't they selected to be in the Bible? And how do we even know these people
0:43.1	were telling the truth? Even if you're going to say that we have the right Bible and the manuscripts
0:48.1	can be compared so we can figure out what they originally wrote, how do you even know that what they said really happened?
0:55.9	They could be making all this up. Well, we have an expert with us today who's put together with
1:01.1	another expert, a video series that's ongoing. And the video series has to do with the reliability
1:09.8	of the Bible, the reliability of the Bible,
1:13.1	because a lot of people are doubting the reliability of the Bible, and this video series
1:20.2	will help you in short order figure out how to answer those big questions. The video series
1:26.7	is put out by Apologetics Canada.
1:28.6	It's called Can I Trust the Bible? And one of the authors is with us. We had them on the podcast last
1:34.6	week. It is the great Dr. Andy Steiger. Here he is, ladies and gentlemen. Andy, welcome back to the
1:42.6	program. How are you? I'm doing great, man. Doing great. And yeah, thanks. to the program. How are you?
1:49.3	I'm doing great, man. Doing great. And yeah, thanks. Thanks for that. What an intro.
1:56.3	Now, before we get into Can I Trust the Bible, I want to point out that Apologetics Canada, the website,
2:03.5	Apologetics Canada.com has some amazing resources. In fact, the infographics tab under resources has some great drawings. I think most of them are made by your colleague, Wes Huff, who is almost
2:10.0	finished his PhD. And for those you don't know who Wes is, Wes is the guy that had that debate
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