Four Gospels incluced in the New Testament

From our series "Battle to Discredit the Bible" this clip answers the question: Whey did the early church recognize the four gospels were the four gospels they were going to include in the New Testament?

Who or what did Jesus think He was?

From the Interview with N.T. Wright on the Historical Jesus, this clip answers the question: How would you describe Jesus' self-understanding: Who or what did He think He was?

How did the resurrection of Jesus differ from the Pharisees' idea of resurrection?

From the Interview with N.T. Wright on the Historical Jesus, this clip answers the question: How did the resurrection of Jesus differ from the Pharisees' idea of resurrection?

Do the Bible and Science square up on day 6 of creation?

From our series entitled, "The Biblical Account of Creation: Does It Square With Scientific Evidence Today? This clip discusses the question: Do the Bible and Science square up on day 6 of creation?

The Biblical Account of Creation - Dr. Hugh Ross

The Real Jesus, Myth no. 2

The New Testament was written 100 years after Jesus

Jennings: "There is no reliable evidence about who the authors actually were. It is pretty much agreed that they were not eyewitnesses. In fact, the Gospels were probably written 40 to 100 years after Jesus' death."

Jennings is simply echoing a popular myth: some of the theologians of the Jesus Seminar have suggested that writers pretending to be Matthew, Mark, Luke and John took a historical person, Jesus of Nazareth, and invented a genealogy and added historical references as time went by thus "improving" the authenticity of their story.

There is no evidence that the earliest manuscripts of the Bible were altered to be more "historic." In fact, there is proof that little of the New Testament has been altered.

And what of the charge that the Gospel accounts were written many years after Christ? The higher critics face a huge problem with credibility here. In dating the New Testament in the second century rather than the first, they must ignore the fact that there were a number of late first century and early second century writers who quoted extensively from the New Testament. The Christians of that era already thought of what we know today as the New Testament — as being authoritative — as scripture.

We have already seen that Christian writers named Clement, Barnabas, and Polycarp wrote about Jesus in the first century. There are other documents as well.

• The Didache, a late first century catechism, quotes extensively from the New Testament.

• Ignatius (A.D. 35-110), the Bishop of Antioch, quotes from 16 New Testament books.

• Irenaeus (A.D. 130 -200), the second century Bishop of Lyons, makes 1,819 references to New Testament scriptures.

• Tertullian (A.D. 160 -220) quotes from the New Testament 7,258 times.

The problem for the higher critics and those searching for a "historical Jesus" is that these people were writing in the late first and second centuries. Since they quote from the New Testament books extensively, we can know that the church in many areas of the Roman Empire had access to all of the New Testament scriptures. So the Gospels must have been written sometime in the first century, during the time of the Apostles.

William Foxwell Albright, one of the world's foremost biblical archaeologists, said: "In my opinion, every book in the New Testament was written by a baptized Jew between the 40s and 80s of the first century A.D. (very probably sometime between about A.D. 50 to 75)."

In the 19th and 20th centuries, there have been thousands of archaeological discoveries of Greek manuscripts of the New Testament that are hundreds of years older than the manuscripts available prior to modern times. There are now more than 5,300 Greek manuscripts of the New Testament and 24,000 manuscript portions available for study. In other words, there are more reliable New Testament manuscripts in the original Greek language available for direct translation into modern English today than ever before.

Sir Frederic Kenyon, who was the director and principal librarian of the British Museum, states, "The last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and general integrity of the books in the New Testament may be regarded as finally established."

The Case for a Creator (Chapter 1 of 10

Chapters 2 thru 10 can be viewed by clicking the link at the end of each video

The Case for a Creator DVD-- Does scientific evidence point toward or away from a supernatural Creator? Award-winning journalist Lee Strobel interviewed scientists and scholars for the answer. The Case for a Creator chronicles Strobels journey from spiritual skepticism to a profound faith in the God who designed every galaxy and living cell in the universe. Produced by Illustra Media.

Evil done in the name of Religion - John Lennox

Did Jesus Rise From The Dead? (Debate)

This is a debate that Lee Strobel hosted between Tim Callahan and Dr. Gary Habermas on the Resurrection. Tim gets torn to pieces, just like Dionysus, his "evidence," which doesn't even have evidence of a resurrection story before Christianity!

The Resurrection of Jesus - Did It REALLY Happen? What Does It Matter?

Why would it take God 24 hours to do anything

From our series entitled, "The Biblical Account of Creation: Does It Square With Scientific Evidence Today?", This clip discusses the question: Why would it take God, if God is God, 24 hours to do anything? He could have done it in a nanosecond.

Was creation 13.7 billion years ago?

From our series entitled, "The Biblical Account of Creation: Does It Square With Scientific Evidence Today?", This clip discusses the question: When it says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," is it talking about 13.7 billion years ago?

What did Jesus mean by "The Kingdom of God"?

This clip is from our Interview with Dr. Ben Witherington on the Historical Jesus: What did Jesus mean when He referred to "The Kingdom of God"?

Did Jesus' environment effect His views?

This clip is from our Interview with Dr. Ben Witherington on the Historical Jesus: How much influence did Jesus' environment have on His views?

Dr. William Lane Craig humiliates Dr. Peter Atkins

This is taken from the 1998 debate between Craig and Atkins. You can see the full debate here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Y6ev...