CNN Says Jesus Was Not Perfect
Reasonable Faith Podcast
William Lane Craig
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I read the news today the news today about a lucky man who made the great. |
| 0:17.0 | Boy, Dr Craig, the blogosphere sure lit up when CNN said that Jesus wasn't perfect and we've got an article here about |
| 0:28.2 | that that happened on CNN with a CNN reporter and it's written by the friendly atheist. |
| 0:35.0 | He meant Meta, who's got a very popular atheist blog, |
| 0:40.0 | and so he kind of gives his take on this |
| 0:42.6 | it was during a hand-off segment on CNN |
| 0:45.6 | anchor Don Lemon was making the point that a lot of people |
| 0:49.1 | who are revered in our country |
| 0:51.1 | the founding fathers president Lincoln weren't perfect and that we |
| 0:56.7 | need to acknowledge their imperfections when considering their legacy. So that's |
| 1:01.0 | where they were going and Bill it brings up another issue you may want to comment on a little bit and that is all the statues that are coming down in our cancel culture and in this cultural shift that's going on right now. |
| 1:15.0 | Any thoughts on all these statues coming down? |
| 1:18.0 | Well let me say that there are two issues here to interact with. Don Lemon's remark, but then also this Hemat-Mata's |
| 1:27.0 | take on the Christian reaction of Lemon's remark. However mistaken, I think think Don Lemon was in saying that Jesus was not perfect |
| 1:37.8 | that is to say that Jesus was not sinless. |
| 1:41.2 | Nevertheless, the point that Lemon was trying to make is a very, very good |
| 1:46.7 | one and that is that many of the people that we rightly revere in our country weren't perfect and that we can |
| 1:57.4 | acknowledge their imperfections honestly when we consider their legacies. |
| 2:03.6 | He mentioned the founding fathers, Abraham Lincoln. |
| 2:07.4 | One could mention as well, Martin Luther King, |
| 2:10.6 | who is universally revered, and yet was a plagiarist he plagiarized his |
| 2:16.3 | doctoral dissertation and an adulterer he was unfaithful and yet his |
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