The Gospels Are History Not Myth

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes complicated issues can be made very simple. Here are some good reasons to think the Gospels are the preserved testimony of eye-witnesses from the 1st century. We will talk about the early second century writings of Papias, the introduction to the gospel of Luke, the riddle of names in the gospels and the issue of genre. All these elements are like arrows pointing to one big fact; the gospels contain the record of eye-witness testimony and attempts to treat them as though they are a hodgepodge of rumor which are far removed from the original sources simply fail. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses - excellent book by Richard Bauckham https://amzn.to/2TWYuzz (this is an affiliate link) If you want to support my continued work on theology and apologetics click here. https://biblethinker.org/index.php/donate

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0:00.0	I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking
0:05.8	biblically about everything.
0:08.8	Hey guys, thanks so much for joining me today.
0:13.0	Here we are. This is the Tuesday live stream.
0:15.6	I'm Pastor Mike Winger.
0:16.6	We talk about here theology, apologetics, giving not only an answer to questions about the Christian faith but trying to give
0:24.8	biblical answers to what the Christian faith actually is. So learning how to think
0:30.8	biblically about everything yada yada yada that's kind of what I do here today we're talking about evidence that the Gospels are historical and not legendary thank you guys so much for joining me for the live stream those who are watching live and if you miss the live stream and you want to catch it make sure to subscribe and then click that there you go click that little bell thing and if that's only if you want notifications if you want to be notified every time I make a video or go live then that's what you want to do
0:55.8	All right here we are brought to you by you you guys band it together and you appealed to YouTube to restore my live streaming abilities and it
1:04.3	worked. You got the job done. Thank you very much. So here we are Tuesday live stream.
1:08.9	Now listen up. The stuff I'm going to share with you right now is actually really
1:12.3	important.
1:13.0	It's one of the reasons why people leave the Christian faith.
1:16.0	And, yeah, so it really is.
1:21.0	This is like one of the reasons.
1:22.0	It's not a good reason.
1:23.3	There isn't a good reason to leave the Christian faith, but there are reasons people leave.
1:27.4	And I like to deal with those things in the course of doing this online ministry
1:31.1	because I know it's relevant to you and hopefully helps you impact the lives of other people.
1:35.0	So, most Christians just assume
1:38.0	that the Gospels are based on eyewitness accounts.
1:40.0	Now I think we're right when we say this,
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