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

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🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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New Testament scholars Mike Licona and Darrell L. 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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0:00.0	There's been a lot of debate, obviously, argument about when the ghost was written on the other books and so on.
0:05.2	What's your view?
0:06.1	By far, most scholars are saying between the years 50 and 70, which would be 20 to 40 years, and only about 10% placed it after 70.
0:15.5	You have Eusebius in the early 4th century.
0:19.6	He said that there were, if I remember correctly,
0:21.7	22 books and letters that were approved widely by the church at that time.
0:27.6	And then there were certain ones that were in doubt.
0:31.0	You have to analyze example by example what may be going on.
0:35.5	You get differences in style and in approach. But the whole point
0:39.6	here is, in order to resolve the question that's being asked about was a goal scored or was this
0:44.9	offside or whatever, you have to have a variety of angles that are at work, which is exactly
0:50.0	what you're getting in the scriptures. You're getting writers writing with a varied set of concerns.
0:54.7	They don't all share all exactly the same concerns. You get a variety of angles.
0:58.9	I go further and say, not only do we have to look at the whole of scripture of what all
1:03.7	the scriptures are saying in this regard, 2 Timothy, 2nd Peter, but also the phenomenon of
1:09.3	scripture.
1:11.7	Hello and welcome to the Unbelievable podcast.
1:15.2	I'm your host for this edition, Roger Bolton, and today we're going to bring together
1:19.0	two New Testament scholars, Mike Likona and Daryl Bock, to engage in the key question of
1:25.7	is the Bible God breathed?
1:28.3	And also asking, does it matter that there are textual variations in the gospel accounts?
1:33.3	What is divine inspiration?
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