How to Evangelize Transgender Friends and Is the Bible Historical Fiction? Plus More Q&A

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this midweek podcast episode, Frank tackles a series of listener questions surrounding how to share your faith with transgender co-workers and how to understand God's grace in relation to our free will. He'll also respond to a common criticism about the historicity of the New Testament--is it just a work of historical fiction? During the episode, Frank will answer questions like:

How do you spark a faith conversation with a transitioning or LGTBQ+ co-worker?
If God wants all people to be saved, why will some people go to Hell?
What does the Bible mean when it says that we will receive a new heart?
What are some of the key distinctions between historical documents and historical fiction?
Are the ancient non-Christian sources for Jesus more reliable than the eyewitness accounts?
What is the consensus among New Testament scholars about the validity of the Gospels?

This episode will help you to respond to objections about the reliability of the New Testament as Frank shares helpful resources from various apologists like C.S. Lewis and offers a few questions that you can ask someone who's skeptical about whether or not the Bible is true. Do you have a question for Frank? Send it to [email protected] and maybe it will make the next Q&A podcast!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.0	Because you have faith, does that make this book true?
0:05.0	Does God exist?
0:07.0	So when someone says there is no truth, if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:13.6	Is that true?
0:15.4	They don't think Christianity's true.
0:18.5	They're talked out of it.
0:20.2	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.2	Because they've never been talked into it.
0:24.0	Cross-examining skeptical and apiistic view.
0:28.0	Welcome to Cross-Examine with Dr. Frank Turrick.
0:32.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we have several questions today.
0:35.0	One question that has been emailed in
0:38.0	has to do with the fact that the New Testament unmistakingly includes what appear to be eyewitness details
0:48.6	that only an eyewitness would know, details about the land, details about the names,
0:56.6	details about artifacts that we now have uncovered, details about who's in power at a particular time
1:06.0	at a particular place. This really appears to be an eyewitness account but we have a
1:11.4	question that's come in that says, well, maybe this is an historical
1:16.8	novel that they used the surrounding area, and yeah, they were eyewitnesses at the time but they're really
1:24.8	just recording an historical novel because just because you find somebody in the
1:29.7	dirt in archaeology or you verify an eyewitness detail from the first century.
1:35.8	That doesn't mean that miracles actually occurred.
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