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So what is, in your mind, the fastest way
to disarm a mythicist?

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I've got a book called Historical Jesus,
where I list a dozen and a half texts,

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many of them outside the New Testament,
in the ancient world for the existence of

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Jesus.

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But one probably better example I would
use, some say, yeah, but you're a

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Christian.

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Okay, Bart Ehrman, an atheist New
Testament scholar, Bart Ehrman gives 15

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independent sources for the crucifixion of
Jesus within 100 years.

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Now, 100 years is actually kind of strict,
but it's a nice narrow parameter for

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saying Jesus lived.

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And here's an atheist.

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100 years time, 15 different sources
evidencing Jesus' death.

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If he died, he had to have lived.

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So Bart Ehrman calls that one of the two
best evidences we have that Jesus lived in

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history.

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The other one is that Paul is the best New
Testament reference we have.

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Critics talk about half of Paul's
epistles, 7 out of 13, being accredited,

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and you can use them in arguing,
because they're great sources.

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Well, the best thing Paul gives us is that
he was an eyewitness to the eyewitnesses.

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Paul in Galatians 1 and again in Galatians
2, he went to Jerusalem and got to Peter,

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James the brother of Jesus, then in
Galatians 2, John.

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They're all together, and the topic
they're discussing, as Paul tells us,

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is the nature of the gospel, to make sure
they're all on the same page.

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And Paul concludes, yes, they're all on
the same page.

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But here, that's two great sets of data
for the existence of Jesus.

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15 independent sources for the crucifixion
of Jesus, and Paul knowing himself,

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of course, Peter, James, and John,
the big four, he knows all of them,

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and he can ask whatever questions he wants
to about what Jesus looked like when he

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was walking and talking in Galilee.

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So we have... it would be like asking
George Washington, or asking Thomas

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Jefferson, what was George like?

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Asking Adams, and John Quincy Adams,
and Monroe, and so on, what do you know

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about George?

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And then it'd be really cool if you could
talk to Martha.

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And that's neat, because we have the
women's testimony for going to the tomb,

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and so on.

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So you make a multifaceted case for George
Washington being the first president of

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the United States, we can do the same
thing with Jesus actually having existed.

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And as Bart Ehrman says, he knows of
nobody, no accredited specialist in the

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field of religion, no matter how liberal,
or how atheist, or whatever, none of them

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who will have university, college,
or seminary positions, none of them teach

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that Jesus never lived.

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The guys who teach it and claim to be
scholars are people who don't have

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accredited degrees.

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He said with two exceptions, as Barts
count, the rest do not have accredited

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degrees, and none of them have university
positions.

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Why are they making such a big splash,
do you think?

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Probably because they infiltrate almost
every website there is and have a bunch

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of...

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they have a loud presence.

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Whatever side you're on, recently,
there was a choice for Supreme Court

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justice in this country.

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How come the voices that made it on the
news shows were the little chattering

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voices that ran next to the senators and
got up in their ear, and chirped at him,

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and chirped at him, and wouldn't let him
sit down at the tables, and... because

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that kind of thing makes the news.

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And people, whoa, and when they say,
oh no, and they pretend like they're

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scholars, but they don't have any
training, they haven't been in the field,

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and all the other scholars, atheists,
even like Bart Ehrman, say they're wrong.

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So to me, that's the real test.

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It's not just Christians saying they're
wrong, it's non-Christian scholars saying

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they don't have a chance.

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