For the City: Craig L. Blomberg on "The Reliability of the New Testament"

For the City was a two-day apologetics conference that took place from March 31-April 1, 2017 at Living Way Fellowship in Highlands Ranch, CO. The conference, put on by the Gordon Lewis Center for Christian Thought and Culture at Denver Seminary, featured world-renown Christians scholars who spoke on a variety of issues in order to equip Christians in navigating and reviving modern culture. For more details, see fordenver.org/.

[@Super0352]

Sir, I thank you so very much for your books and your writings. They provide perfect counterbalance to all the Ehrman text books we get at the University of Toledo. I learn much, yes, and I am not knocking my classes or my university, but I do refer to your terrific writings for balance. Thank you and God bless you!

[@jamesmarsh8167]

This guys laugh brings me so much joy

[@DPR-pe1bs]

Good Study.

[@PM-4564]

Starts at 3:10

[@michaelhochstetler2006]

I wonder how Blomberg views Ben Witherington's theories about John. Witherington thinks John was compiled by the elder John (not the son of Zebedee) based on eyewitness recollections from a Judean disciple (the 'Beloved disciple') who knew Jesus from his visits to Jerusalem. He thinks this may have been Lazarus, interestingly. Witherington gives examples of puzzling details that this would explain and partly explains the John-Synoptic differences in terms of Jesus taking a different rhetorical approach when in Jerusalem and addressing a different audience. His main thesis is that the Gospel of John uses the style of Jewish wisdom literature. See his commentary entitled John's Wisdom.

[@ilg2012]

Anyone know why Luke doesn't have the story of Jesus walking on water? Seems like such an important event to omit.

[@LEGnewTube]

John 21:25

[@ilg2012]

@@LEGnewTube I hear you on this. But WALKING ON WATER!

[@TimothyBukowskiApologist]

Arguments from silence are pretty weak in history. We have sources that mention trips to China post-wall that don't even mention the wall. We have sources from the time period that don't mention the emancipation proclamation. Very few sources even mention the fall of Jerusalem. Authors had very limited space.

[@dylan3456]

@@ilg2012 Imagine you’re the author and you’re writing about a man who is God, born of a virgin, and was raised from the dead, and so on. You’re not making an exhaustive list of all the amazing things. I’m sure they’ve all left out many of the other amazing things.