More Reasons You Can’t Make the New Testament Up

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

4.9 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

How do we know the New Testament writers actually told the truth? Could the New Testament story be invented? Building on two previous shows, Frank gives five reasons why it takes more “faith" to believe that the New Testament writers invented the story. 1) non-Christian sources, 2) historical crosshairs and eyewitness details, 3) embarrassing details about themselves and even Jesus, 4) demanding sayings and commands of Jesus, and 5) the fact that they carefully distinguished their words from the words of Jesus. If you want to send us a question for the show, please email us at Hello@CrossExamined.org. Subscribe on iTunes: http://bit.ly/CrossExamined_Podcast Rate and review! Thanks!!! Subscribe on Google Play: http://bit.ly/CE_Podcast_Google Subscribe on Spotify: http://bit.ly/CrossExaminedOfficial_Podcast Subscribe on Stitcher: http://bit.ly/CE_Podcast_Stitcher

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.3	Because you have faith, does that make this book cool?
0:05.6	Does God exist?
0:07.4	So when someone says there is no truth,
0:09.8	if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:12.6	Is that true?
0:15.4	They don't think Christianity is true.
0:18.4	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.
0:24.2	Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views.
0:28.0	Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Turek.
0:32.4	Ladies and gentlemen, how do we know that the New Testament writers
0:35.9	actually told the truth?
0:38.0	How do we know that they did not lie?
0:42.0	Last week we spent a fair amount of time
0:45.3	on names in the New Testament from Dr. Richard Bacchum's book,
0:49.8	Jesus and the Eye Witnesses, which I think and many others think
0:54.8	is very good evidence that this is not an invented text,
0:58.4	the New Testament that is.
1:00.0	And as you know, Bacchum covered the Gospels and Acts.
1:04.3	And a few months back, I think it was March 19th to be exact,
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