Scribes & Scripture: How We Got the Bible | with John Meade & Peter Gurry

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Atheists and skeptics such as Bart Ehrman have enflamed fear and doubt regarding the reliability of the Bible for years by mentioning staggering numbers such as the roughly 500,000 variants found in the Old and New Testament manuscripts. The goal behind these statistics (usually provided without any context) is to undermine our confidence in the Holy Book. Textual critics and scholars, Dr. Peter Gurry and Dr. John Meade are here to set the record straight in their fantastic new book, Scribes and Scripture: The Amazing Story of How We Got the Bible. In this week's episode Frank gets down to the tough questions like; How many variants are there really? How much do these variants change or compromise the reliability of today's Bible? Should we be concerned about people intentionally changing the original texts? How much of this field is simply guesswork? and Can we still believe our modern-day Bible is both inspired and inerrant? Plus, you'll get a quick overview of the canonization of the Bible we have today. Why were some books included and others excluded? To hear the answers to these important questions make sure you listen to this fascinating interview. To dive deeper into this topic make sure to order your copy of Scribes and Scripture: The Amazing Story of How We Got the Bible HERE, or consider inviting Dr. Gurry & Dr. Meade to your church for their Scribes & Scripture: A Conference on the History of the Bible. To view the entire VIDEO PODCAST for either of these interviews, be sure to join our CrossExamined private community. It’s the perfect place to jump into some great discussions with like-minded Christians while simultaneously providing financial support for our ministry. If you would like to submit a question to be answered on the show, please email your question to Hello@Crossexamined.org. Subscribe on Apple Podcast: http://bit.ly/CrossExamined_Podcast Rate and review! Thanks!!! Subscribe on Google Play: https://cutt.ly/0E2eua9 Subscribe on Spotify: http://bit.ly/CrossExaminedOfficial_Podcast Subscribe on Stitcher: http://bit.ly/CE_Podcast_Stitcher Download Transcript

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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?
0:15.2	They don't think Christianity is true.
0:17.7	They're talked out of it.
0:20.0	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.0	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.
0:32.8	Ladies and gentlemen, how do we know that the New Testament documents were copied accurately?
0:37.4	How do we know the Old Testament documents were copied accurately?
0:40.0	And how do we know which books should be in both the Old and the New Testament?
0:45.2	And what translations should we use?
0:48.0	Are there better translations than others?
0:50.4	Well, we have two guests on this program today.
0:55.0	We'll have them in succession. We'll have Peter Gurry and John Meade talk about their brand new book,
1:01.6	scribes and scripture.
1:03.6	And our first guest is Dr. Peter Gurry, Dr. Gurry U, Teach at Phoenix Seminary.
1:10.2	And this brand new book, scribes and scripture, the subtitle is,
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