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Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

The Best Evidence for Jesus

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Talbot, Church, Culture, Biola, Think Biblically, Christianity, Sean Mcdowell, Scott Rae, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

What is the evidence, outside the Bible, that Jesus existed and was who He said He was? What is the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus? How was Jesus unique among other religious founders? And how do we know that the gospels are reliable records of first century history? Sean and Scott will answer these questions and many more as we discuss his new book, Evidence for Jesus.Read a transcript of this episode at: https://www.biola.edu/blogs/think-biblically/2023/the-best-evidence-for-jesus&n...

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What's the evidence outside the Bible that Jesus existed and was who he said he was?

0:05.6

What's the evidence for the most important component of a life of Jesus, his

0:09.2

resurrection? How is Jesus unique among other religious founders?

0:13.0

And how do we know that the gospel records are reliable historical sources

0:18.0

for information about the life of Jesus?

0:20.0

Sean and I will talk about these questions.

0:22.0

We have a lot more to answer. As'll talk about these questions.

0:22.6

We have a lot more to answer.

0:24.4

As we talk about the new book that just come out

0:26.5

with he and his dad called Evidence for Jesus.

0:30.7

Sean, this is a great accessible it's not I mean it's it's it's

0:36.4

meaty and it's substantive but it's not this it's you know the cookies are on the

0:40.7

lower shelf too for people who are who don't have a background in

0:44.0

some of this material. So what's the story behind you guys you and your dad writing this

0:49.8

book? So you mentioned my father and a lot of people recognize the name Josh McDowell he grew up in a broken

0:56.1

Background really set out to disprove Christianity college

1:00.4

This is back in like the 50s roughly and was surprised by the evidence and at this stage

1:06.4

There was no modern apologetics movement at all it was like CS Lewis Francis Scha, and maybe one or two others doing this.

1:15.2

Ends up becoming a Christian wrote the book,

1:16.9

Evidence that Demands Verdict, which has obviously been just

1:19.6

over the past few decades,

1:21.0

one of the most influential books about really three things

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