Cave To The Cross Apologetics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq3HLsQF9SQ How Can I Prove Christianity? If one were to go about trying to prove Christianity, how would one do that?  The first question to ask is really, “Why should anyone believe anything at all?”. In the introduction to James Anderson ‘s book, we look at that and why believe Christianity in particular.  Is all truth relative?  How about relig...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KfMpaeppuc Transcend- Whatsit?! Transcendental Argument. Starting March 29, we’ll be starting this book – https://amzn.to/2PzTp2U This book simply lays out the arguments backing up the beliefs of Christianity and explores what Christianity really claims, and shows the underlying reason and consistency behind these claims. If you’ve looked into get...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHaiJnKiPfE Rose From The Dead? Rose From The Dead! Jesus rose from the dead. That’s the claim of The New Testament. We close our book with a look at the response to this claim from Bart Ehrman’s challenges to it. Was Jesus even buried? Did the disciples hallucinate the resurrected Jesus? Did the disciples just make it up? The historic and archaeological...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4jcFK0pxM Apocryphal Books Of The Bible? Are there lost, Apocryphal books that should have been included in The Bible? Finishing the chapter on how the New Testament should include the authentic books that are there, we look at why not other books. Why do we include only the 27 books and not 12 others or Gnostic ones? Why four Gospels and not six? Why not include e...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prO6uUn_3xw Who Wrote The Bible? Who wrote The Bible? The next two claims of forgery against the New Testament are the allegations of illiterate authors & false attribution to authors. Were the NT writers too illiterate to write their documents & couldn’t find another way to get their ideas down to be disseminated to others? Is there proof that the nam...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlSeCbVF6Sc Fraud In The Bible? Fraud in The Bible by the New Testament authors? Say it isn’t so! Not really. The claim that anonymous authors, centuries after the life of Christ and the apostles were the real authors of the Christian Scriptures is false. In fact, without a full-on skeptical presuppositional worldview, one could see just how amazing the New Te...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFf5f1kmxeU The Bible Canon As A Weapon? Finishing up the chapter on responding to Walter Bauer via Bart Ehrman. We look at the final two claims that later church councils formed Christian orthodoxy and that the Bible Canon of the New Testament was a weapon used to keep out competing Christian communities. We then finish up with a sermon – by Bart Ehrman. Time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6DtawwjLfk Continuing our look at the Walter Bauer hypothesis, we look at 3 more claims about early Christian orthodoxy. Were the leaders too biased to be good witnesses and chose what teachings made it in? Then the claim that central church leaders won by force of will what beliefs came out on top. Finally, moving into the 2nd/3rd century shows challenges & in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zpaq8FyTbM We begin by looking at the theory of Walter Bauer. Bauer theorized that there were many early Christianities that existed at the start and each one had their own set of orthodoxy. The only real orthodoxy that rose to the surface was by those who used their collective might to assert their will and dominate the theological debate until only they were left...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRc_KLdRNGw Finishing up the chapter on having confidence that we have The Bible as originally written, we cover the last three claims from Bart Ehrman. We show the complexity of early Christian scribes and the systems they developed. We see how hard it is to get in the mind of an actual scribe but see that claiming that they changed the text is very hard to have do...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgSy-sq0TmU Covering the first three claims Bart Ehrman makes about the corruption & untrustworthiness of the New Testament, we see that nuance is needed. Not having the original manuscripts, loss of original readings, and textual variants are claims that play well to a particular audience. Yet, when we look at the details we actually see a benefit to many of th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umPwLgUbfiI The Bible was not beamed into the minds of robot authors and the copying of the original texts were not divinely protected so that no error could be made in the copy. Doesn’t seem like that startling of a message. However, Bart Ehrman became popular on the message – which is quite odd. So we cover the topic of how the New Testament came to be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8eGK0je5Zw This week we’re going to take a short break from our book to do a One Shot episode. Ever since the inception of Christianity, Jesus & the Apostles warned against false teachers and the need to identify them. It is important to see what that looks and compare what’s said to what God says. So Lauren from Tulips & Honey Podcast and Patri...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6XN4CFc8xc Looking at the final three claims of Bart Ehrman when it comes to the Bible having contradictions that make it a non-trustworthy historical story. We look at the difference in chronology and details and see that Ehrman’s claims don’t really add up to contradictions. We also look at Ehrman’s biggest claim in that Jesus was never thought...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_JHUqyoh68 Finishing the chapter dealing with alleged contradictions, we look at a few allegations Bart Ehrman makes. We look at the claim that Matthew & Paul contradict each other when it comes to salvation & The Law. We also look at the somewhat odd claim that there are some harmonizations that can’t be made with certain events of the New Testament,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwv6VzxvjxU We look at Bart Ehrman’s claim that the authors of the NT have contradictory points of view on major issues. We cover three test cases of the Gospel writers and show that the alleged contradictions have logical explanations when viewed historically and fairly. Timeline Breakdown: 00:00 – Introduction 01:06 – Claim 1 – The NT Autho...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwv6VzxvjxU Introducing the chapter on the subject Bart Ehrman is known for, we look at the presuppositions Ehrman has that comes at a price of exclusion of other Bible scholars. The circle Ehrman draws around the “correct understanding of the Bible” seems to come from a place of his own choosing. He also establishes his own criteria for infallibility an...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2oUX0bq4N8 Covering the second part of Bart Ehrman’s critique of the Bible’s explanation for the existence of evil and suffering, we cover a few critiques of the critiques. Ehrman doesn’t seem to like the reasons the Bible gives and doesn’t find them satisfying. He also finds them contradictory. There are answers there and hopefully, this gi...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfH30qtchFY Responding to one of Ehrman’s lesser-known books, “God’s Problem”. We discuss the introduction to some of the problems Ehrman raises and dig into the first objection of is there a contradiction of God being sovereign and God being good with all the evil and suffering in the world. Ehrman is not much known for him being a theologia...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbVNz4ri6-4 Covering the introduction, we cover a bit more of Bart Ehrman and his work. Ehrman claims Christian scholarship has presuppositions going into the subject of New Testament scholarship. Ehrman, however, also has presuppositions whether he admits them or not. We also talk about the desired one should have to present alternative viewpoints in scholarship an...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abhNEhMcRnI A short episode to introduce our new book “ Truth In A Culture Of Doubt ” by Andreas Köstenberger , Darrell Bock , and Josh Chatraw . The Preface covers why the book is being written and why the critique is against Bart Ehrman, one of the most well known critical scholars of the New Testament. Timeline Breakdown: 00:00 – Introduction To...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBHjEq1Gtco Here’s an Amazon link to our next book – https://amzn.to/2JX62lL that we’ll be starting on November 16. One of the current, most popular names in New Testament scholarship is that of Bart Ehrman.  Ehrman has made a name for himself by going from evangelical believer to skeptical agnostic.  He has also written many popular-level, New Yor...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUaTEfXikzs We have the great pleasure of welcoming Greg Koukl onto the show. We recently finished up walking through his book “Tactics” (https://tinyurl.com/yxjxf5s5 ) and he was gracious enough to come onto the show and talk about it with us. Timeline Breakdown: 00:00 – Introduction To Greg Koukl 01:44 – Greg’s Work On Free Will On St...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzRVVDS-l5k We close out Greg Koukl’s book “Tactics” with a final charge to be a better ambassador for Christ. We cover some tips and some challenges that will help us go out and deliver the Good News so that “this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come&#82...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDChpN5XIkE Before we get to the conclusion of Tactics by Greg Koukl, we want to cover five mini tactics at the end. We talk about applying Jesus’ own words to a conversation, how to handle name-calling, embracing true but irrelevant objections, using better descriptor words than religious words, and the power of just saying, “So?”. Timeline Breakd...