Friday, December 6, 2019 Well, I've been home most of this week recovering from surgery, and I finally finished a book I bought a couple of years ago. "Hijacking the Historical Jesus. Answering Recent Attacks on the Jesus of the Bible" is a good resource book for public evangelists to have in their library, and I'm glad I added it to mine. It is written by Phil Fernandes, Kyle Larson, and Matt Coombe, and I became familiar with it from watching Phil Fernandes apologetics teaching videos online. Chapters include:
An Overview of the History and Biases of Modern Jesus Research
The DaVinci Code
New Testament Reliability
Redating the New Testament Books
Is Jesus Just Another Myth?
Identifying the Canon: Which Books Belong in the Bible
And quite an extensive study on Bart Ehrman, his skepticism, his view of the four gospels, and the deity of Jesus
It took me way to long to read because I can be a lazy reader, but also because there is so much information and research presented that I would read a little and then set it aside. It is an academic book and not a pleasure read, and I need to go back through and make notes & highlight data that I can use to help better engage with the skeptical worldviews we encounter as we take the gospel of Jesus out into the streets of post-truth USA. You should check it out if you want to consider good, scholarly responses to refute the skeptics and point people to the Lord Jesus. Paul
Friday, December 6, 2019