Chapter 10

Question 1

If Jesus historically exists what is the next question that critics will bring up?

Answer 1

No one can know the personality and character of Jesus

Question 2

What she name if man scholar a former leader in the historical Jesus movement?

Answer 2

Rudolph bultmann

Question 3

What s the name of the campaign that seeks to determine what sayings if Jesus are legitimate?

Answer 3

The Jesus seminar

Question 4

Of the 1500 statements made by Jesus, what percentage did they declare were definitely stated by Jesus and what percentage was not?

Answer 4

2% were

82% were not

Question 5

What are the three approaches to the study of the historicity and inerrancy of God’s word?

Answer 5

1. The bibliographical approach
2. The internal device
3. The external device

Question 6

In refused to bibliographical approach, what three factors are important?

Answer 6

1. The number of manuscripts
2. The time span
3. Consistent manuscripts

Question 7

What is notable about the number of manuscripts found of the New Testament text?

Answer 7

The NT text is preserved in 5686 partial and complete manuscript portions

Question 8

What is notable abou the time span on the New Testament manuscripts?

Answer 8

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

Question 9

What is notable about the consistency of the manuscripts?

Answer 9

How consistent they are to each other with variants chiefly having to do with copy error

Question 10

What percentage of tenNT do we have and how sure are we about it?

Answer 10

Have 100%

Sure about 99.5%

Question 11

What two factors are notable about the internal evidence regarding the writers of the NT?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What are the three d’s formulated to convince the unbeliever that the Bible is credible in regard to internal evidence?

Answer 12

1. Details
2. Digits
3. Deaths

Question 13

Why are details so important?

Answer 13

It suggests the writers were eye witnesses

Question 14

Why are digits important?

Answer 14

It is impossible for 9 men to write 27 books that corroborated each other’s details unless they were eyewitnesses

Question 15

Why are the deaths of the disciples important?

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Why is it important to show that these apostles wrote early?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Hardy states that all of the NT (except John and revelation) was written before what time?

Answer 17

AD 70. Doctrines do not mention the destruction of the temple in AD 70

Question 18

What two important factors are associated with the external evidence for the reliability of the BiBle?

Answer 18

1. The writing support the historical evidence in scripture

2. There has never been an archeological find that contradicts God’s word

Question 19

Why is Bible inerrancy important?

Answer 19

If there is inerrancy, God must not have authored the Bible

Question 20

Inerrancy

Answer 20

God’s word is without error

Question 21

Autographs

Answer 21

Original document

Question 22

Manuscript

Answer 22

Copy of the original documents

Question 23

Variant

Answer 23

When a manuscript is copied incorrectly

Question 24

Ossuary

Answer 24

The bone box

Question 25

Skeptics claim that gospels were not written by eyewitnesses but by people who lived later.

Answer 25

All gospels were written before AD 70-75 within 40-45 years with eyewitnesses still alive

Question 26

Skeptics claim that the stories of the New Testament were modified, amplified, and embellished.

Answer 26

The custom of oral history made exact memory most likely

Question 27

Skeptics claim that is seems unlikely that the uneducated, lower class, illiterate disciples of Jesus wrote the New Testament

Answer 27

Matthew the tax collector would have been literate, as well as Luke a physician. Those illiterate would have used professional scribes

Question 28

Skeptics claim the Old Testament is filled with lots of textual problems as indicated by the Dead Sea scrolls

Answer 28

Masoretic texts agree word for word 95% of the time. The other 5% is spelling variations

Question 29

Skeptics claim we have only error-ridden copies. Centuries removed from the originals and different from them in thousands of ways

Answer 29

99% agreement between texts

Question 30

Skeptics claim scribes were not satisfied with the New Testament books so they modified their words to make them heretics, women, Jews, and pagans.

Answer 30

In the few cases when changes to minimize women were attempted, the original text can be easily restored.

Question 31

Skeptics claim that the dirty of Christ and the trinity stem from alterations by scribes

Answer 31

Belief in the trinity was common before the scriptures were established in any conical form

Question 32

Skeptics claim the Bible came together in the year 367

Answer 32

No fewer than 19 books were published by the second century

Question 33

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

Answer 33

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