Often times people are lead astray and find reason to doubt their faith because of reasonable-sounding arguments and rhetorically powerful claims that appeal to their emotions. However, often, upon further inspection, these arguments and claims do not hold up to scrutiny.

In this six part series, we responded to ten such challenges put forward by a popular atheist YouTube personality, PineCreek.

1. Doubts and Seeking Truth
2. Misquotes, Evidence, & Missing Records
3. Eyewitness Accounts & Luke’s Relationship with Paul
4. Differences in the Gospels & The No. of New Testament Manuscripts
5. Are there Inconsistencies and Errors in the Bible?
6. Could we have The New Testament without The Resurrection?

 

The Challenges Made and Answers Given:

1. Do the New Testament authors misquote the Old Testament?
2. Is there contemporary evidence for the life and ministry of Jesus?
3. Do the Gospels report event that we would expect others to record?
4. Do the Gospels present eyewitness accounts?
5. Was Luke a companion of Paul who carefully recorded some of the history of Jesus?
6. Do the differences in the Gospels lend them credibility?
7. Do the thousands of New Testament manuscripts point to its historical reliability?
8. Does the Bible provide a consistent message from Genesis to Revelation?
9. Are there errors and mistakes in the Bible besides spelling and grammar?

In this session responding to atheist PineCreek Doug, we examine some challenges regarding (1) whether the differences in the Gospels lend credibility and (2) whether the number of manuscript copies bolsters the case for the reliability of the New Testament.

 

Pastor Marc starts a new Wednesday evening series responding to a video by popular atheist YouTuber, PineCreek, titled “How to Cause Trouble in Church” which attempts to cast doubts on the trustworthiness of the Bible. This series shows why the claims made in the video are really no trouble at all.