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Can we trust the Bible? Our faith is based on the New Testament-but can we really trust the Bible? Skeptics say no, arguing that the Gospel manuscripts have been doctored to push a theological agenda.
Join Dr. Craig Evans as he takes this claim head-on, traveling the globe to track down the most ancient New Testament Manuscripts. Along the way, he highlights groundbreaking new evidence, demonstrating that the case for the reliability of the New Testament manuscripts is stronger than ever.
Starring: John Rhys-Davies, Craig Evans PhD, Charles Hill PhD, W Andrew Smith PhD
Directed by: Reuben Evans

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21 сен 2024

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@christopherjcarson 3 месяца назад

Have some sense of the trinity being superimposed at times. Cathedrals in Ireland sometimes refer to themselves as being named after “the Holy and undivided trinity”. The question could be at what point was the trinity divided? Evidently a reference to the role of scholars and of men. The higher thought when appreciating the trinity is to remind ourselves “that there is great unity in the name of God”!

@Ltlbrthr12 4 месяца назад

It's as though God put in a type of blockchain security in the gospels that would last the test of time and show that his word was not and could not be distorted, changed, or revised without it being revealed that the gospels were changed. You understand my point? 🙏🏻

@franklinholt8054 4 месяца назад

No, speak English, please...😂

@colinmilton8823 4 месяца назад

Well no not really since there are no texts from the first century. The earliest dated texts are from possibly the second century. And if the Apostles had wives and children who traveled with them you would think their offspring would’ve become leaders in the Church. Such is not the case or mentioned anywhere. Nor is it mentioned that their families were not taken on missionary work for their own safety.

@Ltlbrthr12 4 месяца назад

@@colinmilton8823 not sure you understand blockchain (maybe you do) if multiple computers are connected and any change in one computer instantly makes the change in all computers (potentially tens of thousands or more computers) implying that if a change in scripture by one person would create an error in other scripture and the change would be noticed again implying that scripture has its own mechanism to catch changes erroneous entries and such. Kapish? Good things 🙏🏻

@gearoid3398 4 месяца назад

jesus what an absolutely stupid thing to say. Blockchain is open clearly viewable to all, doesn't change and unambiguous.

@colinmilton8823 4 месяца назад

⁠@@Ltlbrthr12I understand the blockchain concept. I’m saying it’s impossible to put the original source texts written by the Apostles into the blockchain because they do not exist anymore. The blockchain begins 4 or more generations after the Apostles. We have to assume those are more the less perfect copies of the original. I’m not willing to trust people that way. It’s not wise to trust people like that.

@DLBeatty 4 месяца назад

42:54 Constantine did NOT declare Christianity to be the "official religion of the Roman Empire." That was not done until 381 CE -- 4 decades AFTER Constantine died.

@lguz386 2 месяца назад

Thank you for allyour work Hod bless you all ❤

@STACKSMOUNTAIN. 4 месяца назад

Jesus Christ nice to meet you 🤝

@nicholaskomarnitzky8378 2 месяца назад

I have a copy of the New testament done in ancient Coptic Greek that was supposedly published in 1710. I need help. can you help me?

@shabanailyas 4 месяца назад

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@TheJDough1 2 месяца назад

Hallelujah

@pdyt2009 4 месяца назад

42:40 Constantine did NOT declare Christianity the official religion of the Empire. That was Theodosius in 380 (Edict of Thessalonica). Don't you people bother to do basic research?

@eyeinthesky7336 4 месяца назад

He did not make Christianity the religion of the empire, but he granted important concessions to the church and its bishops, and his conversion encouraged other Roman citizens to become Christian.

@pedenmk 4 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing. Great episode. GOD Bless.

@ChiliMcFly1 4 месяца назад

I learned about God(YHVH) from the words of Jesus.

@Bryce_Cunningham 4 месяца назад

This is amazing!!

@marvl5334 3 месяца назад

Bryce, what I fine amazing is that these were hebrew people who spoke hebrew and aramaic, but all the writings are found in greek? Like 1% of the writing found in hebrew and aramaic, and they are bits and pieces? It looks to me that there has been a purge of sorts has happened. Its like going back to look at you old school assignments and find there all written in greek. This to me doesn't pass the sniff test.

@leeelliott175 2 месяца назад

It's a difficult one that and it's a fair point, what If they only knew how to write in Greek, not many people could write back then either I'd if thought, just a thought mate

@marvl5334 2 месяца назад

@leeelliott175 Thanks for your reply. There are a little over 300 manuscripts written in hebrew and aramaic and several thousand in greek (5 to 6) . You have to understand the culture of the jews (yahudim) they hated the greeks ( not the greeks only) because they were pagens down to the bone, and they despised everything about them and yes their language too. It was like an abomination to speak greek to a Jew. Josephus was a jew ( secular)highly educated, and he could barely speak because it was very difficult to learn. The Phshitta Codex is one of the oldest texts that is written in hebrew and aramaic. The greek text changes the meaning of things for lack of understanding the hebrew people or after their philosophy of beliefs. That is why they call the saviors name Jesus. Jesus is not a hebrew name. Remember, all the hebrew names have a meaning behind it. YAHUSHUA was his name, and it means YAHUAH is salvation . Like you said, this difficult and long conversation to have. In short, the greeks made many changes to scriptures .Remember always that Satan in the last days will deceive the whole world, it started with the greek texts. Search here on RU-vid for "The Name" video by Promote The Truth it discusses a lot of what I've been talking about. Hope ti hear back.

@lightningspirit2166 4 месяца назад

We need to find a gospel of jesus written by him ..😊

@dopestpost 4 месяца назад

These are witness biographies. He IS THE WORD. The entirety of scripture points to Him. His gospel is written on your heart! 🤍

@lightningspirit2166 4 месяца назад

@@dopestpost the gospels are not direct witnesses or biographies,only a gospel of jesus in his own words ,would show jesus true thinking, all the rest is conjecture , we have no contemporary written account of Jesus's beliefs only heresay...

@dopestpost 4 месяца назад

@@lightningspirit2166 That’s not a fact, scholars still debate the authorship. Most recent findings have the book of John as early as 90AD. He was here teaching, healing, casting out demons, raising the dead and being tortured and executed. And you expect him to write a book? Would you believe it if there was a book in there that said it was written by Jesus?

@lightningspirit2166 4 месяца назад

@@dopestpost that is a fact...,! how come there are books of Mathew, .Mark, luke ,John, which you obviously accept as the actual word of jesus ..?(which i do not )you contradict yourself ,and Mark is supposedly the earliest...why should not there be a contemporary account of jesus views,or a book as you call it ,if you accept the book of John....as bona fide ..?...the point is none of the written gospels are contemporary with jesus,no one knows what jesus really said or thought ,it's all heresay, until a contemporary source is found ,stating jesus actual words it's all,conjecture..! Experts,(a matter of opinion) don't know what jesus actually thought or said ...any more than you ..!what i do know ,is that the early Pauline roman church oppressed and destroyed a lot of genuine material about what jesus actually said, because it did not fit into their roman gentile agenda ,the Pauline Church did their best to destroy the early nazarene Church,because it was too jewish for their tastes,and probably they destroyed a lot of genuine contemporary writings about what jesus actually said,..etc..

@robertmatthews3909 4 месяца назад

@lightningspirit2166 the 4 gospels were written by eyewitnesses....

@thecure728 4 месяца назад

What about the verse 1 John 5:7-8? , that is a very huge discrepancy with great implications. You left that one out completely

@michaelmagee4318 4 месяца назад

So many Bible experts here!

@mikegyver3193 4 месяца назад

Check these verses compared to the alternative Bibles to the King James 1611. Isaiah 14:12, Exodus 6:3 and Genesis 1:28 👀👂🏿🦻🏻 and there is much more 🤯

@IC27185 3 месяца назад

All of these men in this video must believe in the Trinity because that is the only way they can say that the bible is gods words. Without the Trinity which was not what the original Christians believed it came later and i think it was due to the fact that people were starting to question the authenticity of the Bible being the word of god so the Church decided to claim that Jesus was GOD. therefore you have to believe the bible if you believe in Jesus. I believe in Jesus but I do not believe he was god. I believe he is the son of god. But not the god described in the bible.

@donnagayle3 3 месяца назад

Me too. It gets confusing.

@TheKahu78 3 месяца назад

Isa 9:6 The son is THE mighty God, and THE everlasting father Col 2:8-10 in Jesus dwells all fullness of the Godhead Father. John 14 Have I been with you so long and you have not known me Phillip? When you see me you have seen the Father. How sayest thou show us the father. Jesus is Immanuel (God with us) I'm not trinitarian but oneness is the truth. Jesus is God manifested in the flesh John 8 he said before Abraham was I AM ACTS 4:12 Neither is the salvation in any other, for there is no other name given among men whereby we must be saved. Phil 2 His name is above every name Isa 45:20-25 declare every knee shall bow and every tongue swear about YHWH LORD. See also Rom 14:10-11 the Judgment seat of Christ is the Throne of God. There's a great book on the Oneness of God by David K. Bernard

@IC27185 3 месяца назад

You know ya'll I was just bringing up stuff that everyone should consider. I still believe in God and Jesus and many of the stories in the bible. I just don't think the stories about God in the bible are speaking of the almighty god and creator of the universe. A god that is all powerful does not sound like the person who needs the aid of men like asking Moses to send a scout to look at the land of the Caananites. Why would God Almighty need a Scout?

@ichernichenko Месяц назад

I believe its a false assuption that those 2 passages dont belong there. Just because some of the older ones dont have them doesnt mean that they were added. Oldest is not an establishment of originality. Also there are a lot of manuscripts that have it.

@DLBeatty 4 месяца назад

49:10 Which group called themselves 'Gnostic?' 'Gnostic' is an umbrella term that includes a vast range of sects. They usually called themselves by some other term and modern scholars lumped them into a larger group. Many of today's scholars do not believe the term has a meaningful definition. Valentinians did not call themselves Gnostic. Sethians did not call themselves Gnostic. Manichaeans did not call themselves Gnostic. Mandeans did not call themselves Gnostic. Elchasaites did not call themselves Gnostic. Ophites did not call themselves Gnostic. Cathars did not call themselves Gnostic. Naassenes did not call themselves Gnostic. ainites did not call themselves Gnostic. Simonians did not call themselves Gnostic. Basilidians did not call themselves Gnostic. Thomasites did not call themselves Gnostic. Marcionites did not call themselves Gnostic. Cerinthians did not call themselves Gnostic. Carpocratians did not call themselves Gnostic. Etc. This statement is just plain misleading and not supported by evidence.

@dopestpost 4 месяца назад

The celts didn’t call themselves celts.

@eyeinthesky7336 4 месяца назад

They were all gnostic beliefs... we call them that....

@ichernichenko Месяц назад

Who cares what they call themselves. They are still sects and have heretical gnostic views.

@07browe07 4 месяца назад

Wow, so many contradictions. A clear agenda here and yet even when trying to portray it all as certain they can't even edit together a version of the argument which agrees with itself. And trust me they were trying hard. The spin is thick.

@Magic-lg9lw 4 месяца назад

The research and scholarship they have gone far enough to make conclusions fundamentally different than yours. In the end one must admit that the church teaches and believes in a way that doesn’t fit well with the current research and scholarship. The question is why? What justifies it?

@jerryyoung6494 4 месяца назад

Do you have an example? I would say the church shouldn’t jump to agreement about conclusions made by the current people who call themselves experts and generally rule out biblical correctness from the start. A good example is how all the experts insisted there was no real King David. Insisted only fools would believe in him and he was equivalent to King Arthur. Then they found archaeological proof.

@IC27185 3 месяца назад

How about the descrepency in Gods and Jesus's personalities?

@ichernichenko Месяц назад

There is no discrepancy, in the Old Testament God was showing one side of Him mainly Justice, Holiness and Righteousness, and how He feels towards sin, while at times revealing Himself in mercy and love, when He spared the ninevites, healed a Syrian leper, fed an widow that was a gentile women, forgave Davids sin and so on. In the New Testament God showed His other side, Grace, Love and forgiveness, while periodontally showing again His justice and Holiness and reminding people of His wrath like he did in acts 5, and revelations. No contradiction just different sides of the same God.

@IC27185 Месяц назад

@@ichernichenkoDoes an entity so powerful that he can create the universe and life need to be reprimanded by Abraham? Does he need to have a man write his words down? Does the creator need to ask for scouts to go see whats going on in the promised land?

@ichernichenko Месяц назад

@@IC27185 What does the Bible say about God's qualities?

@IC27185 Месяц назад

@@ichernichenko That he is a jealous god and needs exclusive devotion.

@IC27185 Месяц назад

@@ichernichenko However, I already told you I believe Yahweh is a god but not the God almighty

@IC27185 3 месяца назад

There is NOTHING in the bible that talks about the Trinity. And these gentleman are leaving out a very important change that all thr translators of the original text have changed. The word Elohim is plural for Gods.. Ask any of your clergy about this word. That one word alone changes the whole narrative of the bible right from the beginning in Genesis 1:1

@IC27185 3 месяца назад

The Bible is not the words from the one true God. The God that created all things in the universe including Earth and humans. I refuse to accept that the God and creator of all things, the one true God would ever behave and do the things that the god in bible is described as doing. There are references of the real god in the bible but then the other god that seems to not even know where someone is is not God Almighty! That is a god created in the minds of the authors and its soooo obvious when you read the bible in its entirety. We dont need to argue that the Bible is a tangible item that we can see, touch and read and so its obviously a real book. Theres no argument that many of the characters in the Bible actually existed annd archeologist have found enough evidence to prove that a man named Jesus actually lived and died on a cross. But none of this proves that self proclaimed prophets heard the word of god and wrote the bible in his words. There is no prove of Jesus being the real son of God or that he was part of a Trinity and God himself. I believe in God and I believe he is a loving and caring God and not the one described in the Bible. I believe Jesus was a very good man whom we all should live our lives like he did but everywhere you look you see Nobody following that very simple instruction. The instruction cannot be proven as coming from god but it's good advice because if we all lived our lives like Jesus then we might have world peace. But nobody gets it so his death was in vain. Not to me though. I believe in the true god. The creator of all things and I pray to him everyday and night that people's eyes will be open when it comes to false religions and the fake documents and books written to control people and to make the true god look bad. Is that how you all want god to be represented? Thats not a god of love..dont forget the true god. He is sad to see how people are living their lives so far away from what he wanted us too. Love, acceptance, non judgemental, take care of ourselves and the planet he gave us. Whatever, nobody ever understands what im trying to say.

@ichernichenko Месяц назад

You do not know the creator of heaven and earth and you do not pray to Him. Because you refused to believe what He himself opened up about Himself. You think God is not allowed to enact Judgment and punishment on sinner? That's why you think that what is written in the bible is bad? Well did you read about what God did to save you and everyone else?

@IC27185 Месяц назад

@@ichernichenko I never said that. I said it is because of the things that the bible says god did is the reason I dont believe the author(s) of this bible was describing the TRUE GOD. Maybe Satan but not the God we believe to be loving and Kind and act that way towards his own creations

@ichernichenko Месяц назад

@IC27185 that is because you don't understand 4 things. #1 God always acts in terms of eternity with people(meaning that if you have to lose an arm to have your soul saved, he will make you lose the arm, because this life is only temporary. But eternity is forever, Jesus talks about this in His parable) #2 God is not fair, He is just. This means that He will choose to be patient with our mistakes because of the future or past sacrifice of Jesus, but He will not watch evil deeds done forever, He is a Holy and Just God. Also, if God was fair, then we should have been punished for our own sins, not Jesus. Instead, because of the love the father, son, and Holy Spirit have for us, they created a plan in which God's justice is served, but the humans get saved. #3 You forget that God has the right to pass judgment and to punish the people on earth for their deeds. Read the Bible, people would rape their sisters, sleep with their daughter in law, burn their infants on the scolding sizzling hands of mulech, worship demons(this is why they did perverted things because the demons would pervert their mind and tell them to do these things)they would take bribes, kill the innocent, abuse widows and orphans, commit acts of pedophilia and Homosextualality. Steal from each other, act as loan sharks to the poor, talking the last of their bread and clothing for not paying their debt. God wash, showing His displeasure with their wickedness and punished them according to their sins. It seems to me that the devil played you. Jesus is the image and representation of God, the father of the Old Testament. They are one. God is love, but people are corrupt in their filthy minds and deeds. As for proof of Jesus being God, His death and resurrection are proof of His divinity, God's love for us, and the existence of God, the father, that raised Jesus thru the power of the Holy Spirit. The whole trinity is there.

@IC27185 Месяц назад

@@ichernichenko I havent forgotten any of the scriptures. As a matter of fact you are the one who is forgetting that all or most of the otracities you mentioned above were through "gods" order to do so. The god in the bible wasnt ordering his people to kill everyone in the lands they approached because they needed to be punished. He ordered his people to take the land, kill everyone including innocent children in it and to take the virgins as theirs to do what they wanted with and to plunder all their belongings and take what they want of course that's AFTER they give any and all items of value like Gold and Silver to the priests to give to Jehovah!! Come on!! First of all God does not need an army of men to destroy anything as you know from the flood and the story of Lot barely escaping Sodom. Like I said there are clear differences from when the author of each bible book is speaking about the almighty god in heaven that you cannot see and Satan who is ruling Earth and had already admitted he wanted to be like God but then wanted to BE GOD which is why the true God who's name is "I Am" kicked Satan out of heaven and told him if he thought he could be like him then prove it by becoming the ruler of Earth for a time and to try and convince as many humans as he could to believe he "Satan" was the true god. After a 1000 years the God in heaven said Satans time will be up. Can you see why Satan who is posing as God would get so angry at a people he chose because they were slaves and he thought they would be easier to convince and therefore to also control with guilt. could give you a whole litany of examples of when the bible is speaking about the God in heaven vs the God of the Earth. Remeber this one thing about the earliest Christians, they were originally Polythiestic until The church elders convinced their members that there was actually only one God and converted them all into believing in Monotheism. WHY? Because they would have to share the sacrifices and the riches of the Gold and Silver with another God or Gods. Greed is what motivated the change.

@IC27185 Месяц назад

Satan is ruling the Earth yes? And clearly he was jealous of the one true god yes? So why is it hard to believe that once down here on Earth that he wouldnt try to convince us humans that he WAS GOD?