Chapter 10 Flashcards
If Jesus historically exists what is the next question that critics will bring up?
No one can know the personality and character of Jesus
What she name if man scholar a former leader in the historical Jesus movement?
Rudolph bultmann
What s the name of the campaign that seeks to determine what sayings if Jesus are legitimate?
The Jesus seminar
Of the 1500 statements made by Jesus, what percentage did they declare were definitely stated by Jesus and what percentage was not?
2% were
82% were not
What are the three approaches to the study of the historicity and inerrancy of God’s word?
- The bibliographical approach
- The internal device
- The external device
In refused to bibliographical approach, what three factors are important?
- The number of manuscripts
- The time span
- Consistent manuscripts
What is notable about the number of manuscripts found of the New Testament text?
The NT text is preserved in 5686 partial and complete manuscript portions
What is notable abou the time span on the New Testament manuscripts?
There is a complete New Testament manuscript from within 250 years of its conception. These manuscripts were written closer to the date of the original writings than any other ancient manuscript
What is notable about the consistency of the manuscripts?
How consistent they are to each other with variants chiefly having to do with copy error
What percentage of tenNT do we have and how sure are we about it?
Have 100%
Sure about 99.5%
What two factors are notable about the internal evidence regarding the writers of the NT?
It is crucial to show the writers were there when it happened or they interviewed people who were
They were apostles who wrote early and in the first century
What are the three d’s formulated to convince the unbeliever that the Bible is credible in regard to internal evidence?
- Details
- Digits
- Deaths
Why are details so important?
It suggests the writers were eye witnesses
Why are digits important?
It is impossible for 9 men to write 27 books that corroborated each other’s details unless they were eyewitnesses
Why are the deaths of the disciples important?
10/12 were tortured and executed for their beliefs. Paul was martyred. John was exiled. They would have renounced their faith if Jesus was not real
Why is it important to show that these apostles wrote early?
If the NT was written after the 1st century it was too late to be written by the apostles
If it was too late they would have been changed by myth
Hardy states that all of the NT (except John and revelation) was written before what time?
AD 70. Doctrines do not mention the destruction of the temple in AD 70
What two important factors are associated with the external evidence for the reliability of the BiBle?
- The writing support the historical evidence in scripture
2. There has never been an archeological find that contradicts God’s word
Why is Bible inerrancy important?
If there is inerrancy, God must not have authored the Bible
Inerrancy
God’s word is without error
Autographs
Original document
Manuscript
Copy of the original documents
Variant
When a manuscript is copied incorrectly
Ossuary
The bone box
Skeptics claim that gospels were not written by eyewitnesses but by people who lived later.
All gospels were written before AD 70-75 within 40-45 years with eyewitnesses still alive
Skeptics claim that the stories of the New Testament were modified, amplified, and embellished.
The custom of oral history made exact memory most likely
Skeptics claim that is seems unlikely that the uneducated, lower class, illiterate disciples of Jesus wrote the New Testament
Matthew the tax collector would have been literate, as well as Luke a physician. Those illiterate would have used professional scribes
Skeptics claim the Old Testament is filled with lots of textual problems as indicated by the Dead Sea scrolls
Masoretic texts agree word for word 95% of the time. The other 5% is spelling variations
Skeptics claim we have only error-ridden copies. Centuries removed from the originals and different from them in thousands of ways
99% agreement between texts
Skeptics claim scribes were not satisfied with the New Testament books so they modified their words to make them heretics, women, Jews, and pagans.
In the few cases when changes to minimize women were attempted, the original text can be easily restored.
Skeptics claim that the dirty of Christ and the trinity stem from alterations by scribes
Belief in the trinity was common before the scriptures were established in any conical form
Skeptics claim the Bible came together in the year 367
No fewer than 19 books were published by the second century
Skeptics claim that among the earliest Christians there was no agreed upon canon-and no agreed upon theology… but diverse theologies based on diverse texts all claiming to be written by the disciples of Jesus
An overwhelming consensus about all but a few NT books by the mid-second century or earlier. Unorthodox understanding about the nature of Jesus was discarded in favor of apostolic eyewitnesses
