I have a question yes ma'am you said the first thing about taking a book as a proof for your belief you said no internal contradictions how well do you know this book I got this from your friend the other day it's the Bible for all of you who don't know I don't know which version it is I don't know who's writing who decided what to put it in here John we'll read John 117 18 18 do you know this one I'll read what it says here it says no one has ever seen God but God
is the one and only who is at the father's side has made him known right here it says no one has ever seen God okay you believe that you take that you want to read it that's your book this is what you take you bet right here same chapter John 519 right Jesus it says here Jesus gave them this answer I tell you the truth the son can do nothing by himself he can do only what he sees his father doing no one sees he only does what he sees internal contradiction inter so then this
book has internal contrad can we agree on that oh do you don't say yes or no answers what do you say about this internal contradiction when one of the basic principles of interpreting any book is you have to read in context and obviously when you read John chapter 1 the main point is Jesus is God in human form he begins the begin but then ma am I allowed to answer you or not but you're not making sense you say the same then why are you wasting your time standing here talking to me if I'm not
these people here who have questions there's fine then why don't you let me go on to other people if I don't make sense man why do you waste your time why am I going to let you misguide them with your misguidance I to sit here so you have to sort of be a parasite who comes in here and just feeds off the people or listening to absolutely why not you already made yourself here anyways s why that's pretty sad why can't you just be open and honest and have an honest dialogue explain this go okay
explain this thank you okay John chapter 1 John begins with the words in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the Word was God Crystal clearly john1 is stating the deity of Christ the word there is Christ the Greek word is logos obviously by reading John one you know he's talking about Christ obviously he's hearkening right back to Genesis 1:1 which says in the beginning God created the heavens in the earth John is taking that and putting it in Greek John 1:1 in beginning was the word and the Word was
with God and the Word was God nobody has seen God I haven't seen God you haven't seen God but the claim of John is and the claim of Jesus is that he is God revealing himself in human form that's clearly unmistakably what John 1 is teaching and you don't have to have a PhD in New Testament just read it yourself and you'll figure that John it's both John I didn't flip to even a different chapter it's two pages away both John saying one saying no one sees God the other one saying Jesus Sees God is
it saying Jesus sees himself is this something that everyone who reads his Bible exactly right Jesus is claiming to be God revealing himself in human form that's his claim and he sees himself would John write that you're not God what's the difference well if you die and rise from the dead I will listen very closely to everything you have to say why why is that the one thing that you take why did you see George Washington inaugurated first president of United States other people did I good and other people saw Christ die on the cross
and they saw him risen from the dead but they have internal contradictions no there's no contradiction there we human beings do not see God but when God chose to become a human being in Jesus Christ obviously Jesus knew the father very very intimately very very well I was raised uh a Catholic and I Think Jesus was a fantastic fantastic man that everybody should learn about his life how did you find out about Jesus I was taught by whom but through going to church and and and my my family so why did you trust a priest
in a Catholic church and your family to tell you the accurate truth about Jesus really because uh religion perpetuates brainwashing that's the only way to say it when you take a child and you teach them from day one that they have to go to church once a week and you you it's just like learning a language that's if you ask me to speak Chinese right now I'm not going to be able to do it but if I grew up in China it would be second nature to me religion think about baptism okay what is baptism
why why is it so important why was the idea that baptism is everything so perpetuated what you're you know baptism is you are making the choice for a child that can't even make up its mind yet you see you've already indoctrinated them into a belief system without where do Jesus talk about infant baptism where does Paul or Peter or James talk about infant baptism how about John where does anywhere in the Bible is infant baptism talked about so I agree with you you say sir we agree infant baptism is found nowhere in the Bible okay
so my question remains on the table sir what is your source of information about Jesus uh why did you trust that Source be it the Catholic priest be it your mom and dad okay fine yes because I was raised since this big to to know and and taught that's that's why you trusted okay I had to be a skeptic I was not going to trust mom and dad and the local priest or minister to tell me the truth about Jesus and you don't trust your I have to go to the eyewitness testimonies okay which have
been Chang that's right I am not going to build my life on what Mom and Dad tell me that's a whole other debate because the B you have to think things through yourself all right will you just mention me that that the Bible has been Rewritten many times and pieces of it are have been excluded and are still being found right now we so what you're saying is that your firsthand source that you're talking about has been used King James read about the Bible for a reason Reon okay and and before our political systems were
able to control the masses religion controlled the masses religion was was government all right King James in the early 1600s did not translate the Hebrew Old Testament or the Greek New Testament he didn't know the languages I'm not saying he did it himself he was a king he hired he told someone Hebrew Scholars and Greek Scholars right okay they did not change anything how do you know because I've studied the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek new test do you know Hebrew and Greek I had to learn Hebrew and Greek in seminar the way that
they taugh they spoke that the Old Testament was written in Hebrew and the New Testament was written in Greek now you raise a great question which is why should we trust Matthew Mark Luke and John to give us accurate historical information hopefully you have some test sir that you use to determine historical reliability myself I've got four tests I use them on suetonius Aus US History Greek history any history nothing sacred about my test come up with your own my four tests are internal consistency meaning by that are there contradictions within the text that point
to massive confusion when you read Matthew Mark Luke and John you'll notice a tremendous internal consistency no contradictions different perspectives yes second test literary style Once Upon A Time In the Land of Nod wink and blink and Nod to a boat ride obvious that's fairy tale it's not the literary style of Matthew Mark Luke and John Matthew Mark Luke and John use historical narrative like a newspaper reportage as literary style third test archaeology are we talking about Jesus in the Island of Atlantis no we're talking about archaeologically verifiable Bethlehem Nazareth Jerusalem Rome Sea of Galilee
fourth test come on man 2,000 years ago in the first century these guys write these gospels haven't you ever played telephone you whisper a secret in the ear of the person next to you they whispered in the ear of the person next to them yes I played that game yes the Secret's totally perverted that is not how we have the gospels handed down to us sir the gospels that we have today in English are based on over 5,200 Greek manuscripts all agreeing to an infinitesimal degree sir there is no document from Antiquity that could even
approach the New Testament gospels in manuscript evidence so the overwhelming evidence is the gospels are accurate historical
