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Why would I stake my life on these documents? Why would I take the New Testament seriously?

Why would I trust something that was written 2,000 years ago?

If you want to throw out the New Testament as a reliable witness to Jesus and the Apostles and the early church,

you better be prepared to throw out all the other ancient history as well.

We have hundreds of manuscripts that are written really close to the event.

And the only reason, at least I can see, that you would doubt the substance of what they're

claiming is because... The claims they make on you. The claims they make on you. Is there any good

reason to think Christ rose from the dead? When they argue for believing the resurrection,

they appeal to prophecy. People will complain. They'll say, look, nowhere is he claiming to be God.

You're just sort of reading into the tea leaves and are coming out with something.

The church came up with hundreds of years after the supposed resurrection.

Let's go back to the Old Testament.

Let's go back to Moses.

I'm going to start from the beginning.

Dr. Petra. Petra. Petra? Petri. Petri. Yeah, it's fine. It's really good to have you on the show.

It's great to be here finally. I've been wanting to talk to you for a long time. We did something a long time ago. It was just audio.

Yeah, I think we did an audio interview once. And I think one time I zoomed in and it was you know zoom is never the same as face to face so thank you mad for having me it's really a pleasure

to be here yeah i'm glad you exist and i'm glad you're doing the work that you're doing even just

having you on alex o'conda show recently well first of all kudos to him you know he's someone who's

really serious about engaging the best arguments, say,

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