Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks.

Where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Patrick Miller. In college I took a New Testament class because I wanted

to learn more about the New Testament. Now I know that sounds obvious and it seemed

obvious to me at the time but I was actually just oblivious

because the minute I set my 21-year-old rump down I didn't receive a deep dive into

the history and text at least as I understood it.

Instead, I had the New Testament deconstructed, locked stock and barrel, by someone who was admittedly a brilliant

professor.

She even studied under Bart Airmen. Now you might recognize that

name because he's known at a popular level for writing books targeted at Bible believing

Christians and they all argue that the New Testament is a farce.

The Gospels weren't written by disciples of Jesus.

They were written well after his death.

Some by a century or two centuries.

The letters of Paul, besides a few parts of them, weren't written

by Paul either, according to Bart Airmen. The case for all of this is academic and it sounds

really impressive, especially if you're young and impressionable like I was.

Especially if you've never heard someone talk about papyrus and codices and Vaticanus and

cyaniaticus and archaeological evidence and textual studies.

But my rump has aged since then and with age comes experience and a lot of reading and

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