What Do Our Oldests Texts Reveal about Jesus? An Interview with Craig Evans

[@hopefaith7076]

Dear Sean, you and Dr Evens are amazing. Thank you for your inspiring scholarship. You have encouraged me and also used your works to defend the Bible.

[@LyndaP31]

This is excellent. I appreciate the debunking of some of these crazy theories.

[@patticarey9016]

Excellent interview! Looking forward to reading his book!

[@JWCFB]

Thank you Dr Evans. I always enjoy listening to you.

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[@thechristologists8479]

I love getting to hear from these legends in the field. Thank you for your ministry Sean, I’ve learned a lot from your content. I’d love to study with Biola one day, but I’ll have to see where God takes me.

[@SeanMcDowell]

We’d love to have you!

[@loveisall5520]

I live in Houston. Houston Baptist University is a lovely school right next to the hospital where I was a manager for many years. My sister got her masters degree there. I am a Roman Catholic, but I would not hesitate to my child there.

[@bobgriffith1810]

Dr Evans presentation of Biblical evidence is consistent with what Dr Wallace of the center for New Testament studies has developed, which is significant. Thank you for your dedication and may our lord Jesus bless and protect you and your work.

[@ceciliamccollough1602]

Thank you Dr. Evans and Sean. Excellent and worthwhile.

[@SeanMcDowell]

My pleasure!

[@geraintroberts565]

@@briendoyle4680 For someone still in kintergaden, that's quite a leap!

[@Aleks-JesusismyLORD]

@@briendoyle4680 How can you know that ? You think you have come from nothing :D

[@geraintroberts565]

@@briendoyle4680 prove what?

[@geraintroberts565]

@@briendoyle4680 proof, in the way you mean it, is only done in mathematics! Can you prove that God does not exist, using the criteria you would have the Christian use? The Cristian faith is based on evidence, which even Jesus appealed to, with his interactions with the Pharisees!

[@bibledigger1]

I have very much enjoyed this! Thank you, Dr. Evans!

[@InLawsAttic]

It is a very thorough and good book.

[@berylcraig51]

So helpful... thank you.

[@GodDutyHonorCountry]

POWERFUL stuff!

[@dorothywilder9995]

This is awesome information

[@margahe9157]

18:30 Mike Licona claims, ancient biographies were published anonymously in the antique. Only later in history writers started to add their names. What is right?

[@alanflood8162]

Fabulous, thank you.

[@SeanMcDowell]

You bet!

[@jeffersonneto1378]

Another thing brothers.. I've heard that a papyrus was really expensive in that time..how would they take notes of the Jesus' speeches and teachings?

[@danacamp5437]

Matthew was very wealthy as were some of the other disciples and followers.

[@josepelayo5569]

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[@Aleks-JesusismyLORD]

For me it shows : Out of Print--Limited Availability :(

[@josepelayo5569]

@@Aleks-JesusismyLORD I actually went to doctor Craig website

[@bibledigger1]

You can also find it at Chritianbook.com

[@amitabraham2687]

Voice is not very clear . That's the problem. And ideas are very important ..

[@jeffersonneto1378]

Was really Mark who really wrote his gospel himself, or he had a guy who wrote for him?.. once Mark and most of the disciples very likely didn't know greek language.. that's a real issue for me.. thanks brothers great talk 💪

[@chrisjones-rd8it]

the Jewish Essenes (?) sect only wore a single layer of linen clothing. It is certainly possible Jesus talked with an Essene about the mysteries of heaven. Is Clement simply saying a copy of Mark with this addition exists and this copy must be kept quite maybe bc it is not authorized...could it be true but just this simple? Essenes were extremely law abiding and very religious...if true would it be innocent and nit homoerotic?

[@timthornhill9347]

I was following the whole thing. Till he mentioned the Gospel of Thomas fake. It's the only Devine literature that's exists.The only words that came from Christ (Yeshea) actual mouth. If he read it. He didn't try to translate the phrases. I'm not a biblical scholar. I don't know how to dive in 2000 years of history And still find the present Bible relatable.

[@michelhaineault6654]

No matter which text we read the text will never teach that God is three different persons . Jesus is God manifested in flesh (as a man) this is the true Jesus of our bible.

[@strangerinmoscow6858]

hmm? how do you explain Jesus praying to the Father or saying the Holy Spirit will come after Him, or saying that they can blaspheme His works, but not the works of the Holy Spirit? How do you explain God being mentioned in different places during the same situation in different parts of the old testament; example, tower of Babel or the Angel of the Lord or Moses and the burning bush...?

[@michelhaineault6654]

@@strangerinmoscow6858 many questions but nowhere the bible teach God as being three different persons.You do not make the difference between the son of man WHO WAS BEGOTTEN and Yahweh who is Spirit and who begot is own living Tabernacle. Only one God the Father who came as the sacrificial Lamb as TEACH IN ISAIAH 35 :3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. 7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. 8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it;

[@strangerinmoscow6858]

lol alright. Some people are very dogmatic

[@iampostal]

instead of doing mental gymnastics and trying to make a later text support an older text and then magically call it prophecy...instead of all the cloak and dagger games why not just say the name Jesus ONCE in the old testament....jesus is not in the torah...and he no where near fill the requiremnts of the messiah laid out in that text....hes a dead jewish carpenter who told his friends hed be back before they died and he failed...he said a few nice things..and not much else///sorry

[@Nameless-pt6oj]

They're not performing mental gymnastics, they're using internal evidence and applying proper understanding of the language and texts, so don't just say that they're making fit their interpretations.

[@iampostal]

@@Nameless-pt6oj but they are..the messiah the jews waited for and is described is nothing like the new testament jesus...and they h=got the name wrong..so they used verses twisted them a round to suit their agenda and called them prophecy....its not surprising when you have the old texts so you can make current events appear to be prophecy...there is not one thing in the bible that could not have come from ther mind of a first century bronze age superstious man..nothing...and again i ask if its about jesus why not just say jesus..its far ewasier of course to make stuff up..jesis was the anger in the furnace witrh shadrach..the serpant was satan etc etc...in the end the mostsimple expanation is generally the right one...and you dont have to resort to magic and mythology :)