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Mama Bear Apologetics

Episode 15: Are the New Testament Eyewitnesses Reliable: The Flashbulb Memory Objection

Mama Bear Apologetics

Hillary Morgan Ferrer & Amy Davison

Christianity, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The question of eyewitness reliability is a pertinent conversation that every parent will have (or should have) when their child asks, “How do we know that we can trust the Bible?” If the New Testament documents are not reliable, and if the people writing the New Testament documents were not reliable, what leg does our […]

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0:00.0

I'm Hillary and I'm Rebecca and we are

0:08.8

Ma Bear apologetics. We're just two gals talking about life's big questions from a

0:14.1

biblical worldview because when it comes to the battle of ideas we need to be able to

0:18.6

say, mess with my kids and I will demolish your arguments. You mess, I demolish.

0:24.0

Got it?

0:25.0

Could peace?

0:26.0

Rise up, ladies.

0:29.0

Rise up, mama bears.

0:31.0

This might not affect your faith, but it might affect your children's.

0:34.0

Hey, we got Hillary and Rebecca and we are continuing in our series right now discussing both the debate and the

0:45.1

apologetics conference that we went to this last weekend and one of the

0:49.1

things that I really want to address because it came up not only at the

0:52.0

debate but also at the conference is the idea of can

0:56.1

we trust the New Testament eyewitnesses.

0:59.6

Can I just read a quote I just read?

1:02.0

Yes, this is from Dr. Dan Wallace's website and it's a

1:06.3

blog post he wrote looking at a book by another new testament scholar called

1:11.0

Craig Blomberg and Craig Blomberg is really dealing with a lot of what

1:16.8

Bart Ermin has written in his books in particular one of Bart Ermin's books Ms Clodie Jesus and as we said in our previous podcast, Barterman is a New Testament critic,

1:26.0

and a lot of professors like to use his stuff because he just sits there and most of his books just discredit the New Testament documents that we have.

1:35.0

Dan Wallace writes here, he says in recent years it has been estimated that over 60% of kids

1:40.7

coming from Christian homes abandon the faith by the time they get

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