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Variations in Scripture: do they matter? 🧐 New Testament Scholars Mike Licona and Darrel Bock explain

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

New Testament scholars Mike Licona and Darrell Bock dive into the Bible’s rich complexities, covering divine inspiration, authorship, and textual variations 📖✨. They discuss how understanding the Bible as both divinely inspired and humanly transmitted influences its authority and interpretation. Topics include the formation of the Old and New Testaments, challenges in translation 🌍, and the development of core doctrines like the Trinity ✝️. Gain insights into how cultural context shapes interpretation and how differing Gospel accounts add perspective without undermining Scripture’s message. #BibleStudy #DivineInspiration #BiblicalTruth #TheologyExplained #ScriptureDeepDive #Trinity #GospelInsights #UnderstandingFaith #ChristianDoctrine #BibleInterpretation • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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There's been a lot of debate, obviously, argument about when the cost was written on the other books and so on.

1:05.5

What's your view? By far, most scholars are saying between the years 50 and 70, which would be 20 to 40 years, and only

1:13.0

about 10% placed it after 70. You have Eusebius in the early 4th century. He said that there were,

1:21.1

if I remember correctly, 22 books and letters that were approved widely by the church at that

1:27.3

time. And then there were certain ones that were approved widely by the church at that time.

1:27.6

And then there were certain ones that were in doubt.

1:31.0

You have to analyze example by example what may be going on.

1:35.7

You get differences in style and in approach.

1:39.0

But the whole point here is, in order to resolve the question that's being asked about,

1:43.5

was a goal scored or was this

1:45.2

offside or whatever, you have to have a variety of angles that are at work, which is exactly what

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