it and then i also get to come out and
share
the good news about jesus christ and
that's what we're going to be talking
about in this session we're going to be
looking at the person and work of jesus
christ
and in our day there are a lot of myths
about who jesus is so we're going to be
looking at those in just a moment but we
know that jesus spent most of his
adult life in the land of israel and
actually had an opportunity to go there
with my wife a couple years ago loved it
would love to go back someday and
got to see so many of the sites that
that he obviously saw as he was there
and this is really the most important
place we can think about as far as
history goes because of all the things
that he did for us when god himself
became one of us and then came to the
earth and lived a sinless life and went
to the cross in our place
dying for our sins and then rising from
the dead right here in the land of
israel near near jerusalem
so if we were to ask this question to
the average christian or at least to
most christians
who is jesus christ
what do you think we would get as far as
an answer
well i hope we get some of these or
maybe all of these and maybe more he's
the son of god he's the second person of
the trinity he's the way the truth and
the life that's what he said about
himself he's our sinless savior he was
crucified and he rose again three days
later he's our great high priest and
he's our returning judge he's emmanuel
it means god with us he's fully god and
he's fully man
and he's king of kings and lord of lords
and so much more we could say about him
in fact we opened up an exhibit at the
creation museum a few years ago called
christ cross consummation where we walk
through his life and ministry and the
work that he did for us and here's an an
image of that talking about his birth
and then we've got all the way through
the
crucifixion and resurrection and the
ascension and his uh return that's
coming
uh so just in in one area of this
exhibit we talk about the old testament
and what it says about who the messiah
would be because god is giving his
people he's telling them this is what
i'm gonna this is what it's going to be
like when the messiah comes when god
becomes a man when he becomes one of us
here's what it's going to be like he's
going to be born of a virgin in
bethlehem he's going to be a descendant
of abraham isaac jacob judah david he's
going to be an obedient prophet he's
going to be a faithful priest he's going
to be the eternal king he'll be god with
us as we mentioned a little bit ago
he'll be a healer of the deaf the blind
the sick and the diseased
he's going to be a great light in
galilee he's going to be a parable
teller he'll enter jerusalem on a cult
he's going to be hailed as the messiah
and yet he's going to be rejected by his
own people he'll be betrayed by a friend
for 30 pieces of silver he'd be severely
beaten he would be mocked and ridiculed
then his hands would be pierced and his
feet would be pierced and lots would be
cast for his clothing he would die as a
sacrifice for our sins he would be
buried in a rich man's tomb but he'd
only be in the grave for a short while
and he would live again after his death
and then he would be raised to the right
hand of god all of those things were
prophesied hundreds of years before they
happened
so the bible gives us great detail about
who the messiah would be and what he
would be like and then jesus of nazareth
came and he fulfilled all of those
things
and we here in that exhibit we talk
about each of those prophecies
but if we were to ask this question to
let's say your typical college student
today
or to many unfortunately many high
schoolers or middle schoolers who is
jesus christ
well a lot of times you're going to get
a lot of different answers it might look
something like this
because of these best-selling books that
are out there these popular level books
that teach all sorts of false ideas
about jesus and so we're going to spend
our time in this session looking at a
lot of these modern myths about who
jesus is
the first one actually is becoming quite
popular thanks to the internet and that
is
did jesus even exist
you know as christians obviously we take
that for granted we know that we have
the word of god scripture tells us he
existed so we know that he did okay we
have complete confidence in that because
it's the word of god
but for so many people out there they're
being told there's no evidence for
jesus's existence and then they buy into
that and they think christians are just
believing something there's no evidence
for they think that's what faith means
of course that's not the definition of
faith according to scripture but here's
what the freedom from religion
foundation had a billboard that said
nobody died for our sins jesus christ is
a myth
in 2007 there was a film called
zeitgeist
and it's and in this this movie was
trying to say that jesus was just copied
from all these other pagan beliefs which
we're going to get to in a little bit
they'll say furthermore is there any
non-biblical historical evidence of any
person living with the name of jesus the
son of mary who traveled about with 12
followers having healing people and the
like there are numerous historians who
lived in and around the mediterranean
either during or soon after the assumed
life of jesus how many of these
historians document this figure
not one
and then that that film zeitgeist was
copied almost verbatim by bill maher in
his film religious so he promoted the
same ideas
in this book by kenneth humphries he's
called jesus never existed christianity
was the ultimate product of religious
syncretism
in the ancient world its emergence owed
nothing to a holy carpenter there were
many jesuses but the fable was a
cultural construct
the twelve disciples are as fictitious
as their master invented to legitimize
the claims of the early churches the
original mary was not a virgin that idea
was borrowed from pagan goddesses
scholars have known all this for more
than 200 years but priestcraft is a
highly profitable business and finances
an industry of deceit to keep the show
on the road
so this is what young people are being
taught this is what you can can find
website after website or video after
video on youtube about
and they can make a pretty what looks
like a pretty convincing case because as
long as you can write something that
looks you know legible or that you can
actually read or if you can make a video
that seems authoritative you're going to
convince people especially people who
are already looking for reasons to not
believe
in the son of god
bart ehrman is one of the most popular
writers out there in terms of in terms
of biblical criticism and textual
criticism in fact he is somebody who
grew up in an evangelical home and then
he went to moody bible institute and he
went to wheaton college and then he went
off to princeton theological seminary
and he said after a while he lost his
faith
for a while he called himself a happy
agnostic now he called himself an
agnostic atheist
and here's what he said in his book did
jesus exist so again this is not
somebody who is trying to promote
christianity and and try to defend our
position but here's what he says
every week i received two or three
emails asking me whether jesus existed
as a human being when i started getting
these emails some years ago now i
thought the question was rather peculiar
and i did not take it seriously of
course jesus existed everyone knows he
existed don't they
but the questions kept coming and soon i
began to wonder why are so many people
asking i discovered to my surprise an
entire body of literature devoted to the
question of whether or not there was
ever a real man jesus
i should say at the outset that none of
this literature is written by scholars
trained in the new testament or early
christian studies teaching at the major
or even the minor accredited theological
seminaries divinity schools universities
or colleges of north america or europe
or anywhere else in the world
of the thousands of scholars of early
christianity who do teach at such
schools
none of them to my knowledge has any
doubts that jesus existed
the historical evidence for jesus's
existence is overwhelming
and we'll look at just a little bit
about a little bit about that but this
is why bart ehrman would say of course
he existed in fact the vast majority of
scholars agree he existed the vast
majority agree that he died on the cross
even if they don't believe in him and
believe that he rose from the dead and
believed that he's the only way to the
father they still believe that these
things happened in history
but skeptics will say that the bible's
the only source of information about the
life of jesus he saw that in one of the
quotes earlier and since those writers
obviously had an agenda to promote the
christian faith you can't trust what
they say about jesus
here's what jim walker said devastating
to historians there occurs not a single
contemporary writing that mentions jesus
all documents about jesus came well
after the life of the alleged jesus from
either unknown authors people who had
never met an earthly jesus or from
fraudulent mythical or allegorical
writings where are all the contemporary
sources for the life of jesus you can't
count the bible
see there it is you can't count the
bible because they all had an agenda and
the gospels were written a generation or
two later why didn't any roman or jewish
historians write about him
well that's a great question and we'll
deal with that in just a moment but let
me ask this question first obviously jim
walker who wrote this has an agenda
doesn't he
so
using his own logic we can't trust
anything he says either and that goes
for anybody at any time at any place
because every one of us have an agenda
it's not about does the person have an
agenda it's about what
is truth what really happened
and so even somebody with a bias can
tell you what actually happened
and it can be trustworthy
so can we trust what the skeptics say
about jesus
well not according to their standard but
here's what we need to realize you know
the bible is not just one book so when
they say that the bible's the only
source of information about jesus that's
not just one source now as christians we
believe that the holy spirit inspired
the writing that was there so ultimately
we would say that the holy spirit is the
the author but there were at least eight
different writers in the new testament
and most of them were eyewitnesses to
the things they wrote about
most of them knew jesus and walked
around and talked with him and learned
from him
and so you'd have to deny every single
thing that every one of these guys says
about jesus
i mean these people who say he never
existed they're not just denying the
miracles they're saying this person was
completely made up
and look at what john writes in his
first epistle and pay attention to how
he how he emphasizes the eyewitness
nature of being able to be around jesus
look at all the terms he used to talk
about the senses
that which was from the beginning which
we have heard which we have seen with
our eyes which we have looked upon which
our hands have handled concerning the
word of life the life was manifested and
we have seen and bear witness and
declare to you that eternal life which
is with the father and manifested to us
that which we have seen and heard we
declare to you that you also may have
fellowship with us and truly our
fellowship is with the father and with
his son jesus christ john emphasizes
over and over again that they saw him
that they heard him
but
when a skeptic asks this question or
when they challenge christianity on this
point they say there's no ancient
historians who wrote about jesus there
are a bunch of people living in that
time in and around the mediterranean and
none of them wrote about jesus you know
what i do
i just turned the question back around
on and i said can you give me the name
of one
tell me the name of one historian who
lived at that time who should have
written about jesus but didn't
you wanna know what the response usually
is
silence they don't have one
now there was one young skeptic that was
talking to me before and i asked that
question and after a couple of days he
came back with two names
the first one was marcus velius
paterculus
his history covered the time from the
trojan war in the 12th to 13th century
bc all the way up to the death of libya
in a.d 29
and he died two years later in a.d 31.
do you want to take a wild guess as to
why paterculus didn't write about the
life of jesus
it's because he's writing from rome and
jesus is in and around jerusalem and in
israel and his ministry is just getting
started
when particular stopped writing so why
would he write about somebody who lives
1400 miles away whose ministry is just
getting started
so we shouldn't expect particulars to
write about him the next name that was
given to me was memnon of heraklia
he wrote a history of his city
heracleopontico and the tyrants who
ruled it
but we don't even know when it was that
he wrote some people think in the second
century a.d some people think it was a
little bit earlier than that why would
he write about a jewish rabbi 700 miles
away
when his history is just about his town
and those are the only two names that
people have given me so far
but
there's a book that's been published a
few years ago written by a guy named
michael polkovich
and he lists 126 different historians
and writers who should have written
about jesus but didn't
126 of them
so i'm going to read a lengthy quote
here and this is by from a website
called history for atheists
and this website is actually put
together by an atheist historian
so at answers in genesis we have
certain articles that are dedicated to
arguments that that creationists
shouldn't use there's because there's
some arguments that are out there that
are either unsubstantiated maybe they're
just really bad arguments um and we're
just saying and we hear people say and
we say you know what that's not really
helping our cause so let's let's avoid
using these arguments and that's really
what he's doing in this article because
he hears all these atheists out there
people who believe the same thing he
does
they're saying there's no evidence for
jesus and he says guys that's absurd
and here's here's what he said so bear
with me during this lengthy quote most
of the list compiled by the aerospace
engineer michael palkovich mentioned
above for example is padded by pretty
much anyone who wrote anything in the
period around the time of jesus which
makes his claim that 126 writers somehow
should have mentioned jesus rather
ridiculous
to begin with palkovich claims writers
that should have mentioned jesus despite
the fact we do not have any actual
writings from these people at all the
emperor titus for example how could paul
kvich assess the lack of mentions of
jesus in the completely non-existent
writings of titus i have no idea and
titus is not an isolated example no less
than 47 of the writers polkovich list
have no surviving writings at all
only slightly less silly than this are
the writers who feature on the list
despite having died before jesus was
born so palkovich lists a lysomachus
without noting which of the several
writers of that name he's referring to
not that it matters given that they all
died in the bcs and so unless he they
invented time machines could not really
have mentioned jesus given that he had
yet to be born
then we have people like sileous
italicus and gaius valerius flaccus
who were at least born in the aeds but
who wrote works that focused on events
long before jesus time socilius attack
italicus wrote a poem about the second
punic war
and so set centuries before jesus's time
while valeria's flaccos argonautica
referred to above because it alludes to
the eruption of vesuvius was about jason
and the argonauts and so similarly had
no reason to mention jesus equally
ridiculous are the claims that serranos
who wrote a book on gynecology frontenus
who wrote a book on aqueducts and
decimus valerius
uh asacatus whose only known writing is
a letter about a stolen pig all should
have mentioned jesus
most of palkovich's list is so patently
stupid that i find myself wondering if
he wrote it as a satirical parody of
just how bad this kind of argument can
be
remember that's from an atheist
telling his fellow atheists stop using
this argument
and then he goes through six different
writers who do have some surviving
writings who did write within a
generation or two of jesus and that were
on paulkovic's list and he shows why
it's still pretty absurd to think that
they should have written about him for
example galio who's mentioned in the
book of acts as this pro council we do
have a surviving letter from him and
it's written to his brother about some
of the affairs that were going on in his
city
okay nothing about what's going on in
israel and jerusalem so why would he
have written about jesus at that time in
that letter to his brother
but let's examine that claim a little
closer only the bible talks about jesus
that's the only early source of
information we have about jesus
well
we have all of these writers and
writings as well so let's go through
some of these we have flavius josephus
many of you have heard of him before he
was a jewish general who was captured
during uh the war against the the romans
in in the late sixties
and uh he records the history of the
roman conquest of israel the fall of
jerusalem in a.d 70 and all the battles
that went with that and then he also
recorded or wrote down a history of the
jewish people
and in his writings he speaks of james
who is called the brother of jesus who
is called the christ
so here's somebody who was born just a
few years after the crucifixion of
resurrection growing up in the same
culture
and he says
here's somebody the brother of jesus so
he mentions jesus and then there's
another more popular quote and this one
is disputed
and you'll see
now there was about this time jesus a
wise man if it be lawful to call him a
man for he was one who wrought
surprising feats he was the christ
he appeared to them alive again the
third day as the divine prophets had
foretold these and ten thousand other
wonderful things concerning him
can you see why scholars
question whether or not josephus a
jewish man who did not believe in jesus
as the messiah would write these words
and we also have other
other
uh texts from him we have other
manuscripts from him that don't have
these words and so this is disputed and
very unlikely that he actually wrote
many of those words what probably
happened is that some christian along
the way embellished his statements and
so scholars have agreed that there
really was something there to begin with
and they looked at some of the other
documents we have from him and they've
come up with this
now there was about this time jesus a
wise man for he was a doer of startling
deeds a teacher of such men has received
the truth with pleasure and he gained a
following both among many jews and and
many of greek origin
and when pilate at the suggestion of the
principle men amongst us condemned him
to to the cross those that loved him at
the first did not forsake him and the
tribe of christians so named from him
are not extinct at this day
so josephus did write about jesus
and he's within a generation or two and
then we have this now none of his
writings
have survived
but we do have some of his wording
recorded by julius africanus he wrote
he was a historian who wrote in greek
and he wrote a three-volume history of
the world and in his in there he was
talking about the darkness that covered
the land
for three hours while jesus was on the
cross
he said on the whole world there pressed
a most fearful darkness and the rocks
were rent by an earthquake and many
places in judea
and other districts were thrown down
this darkness phallus in in the third
book of his history calls as appears to
me without reason an eclipse of the sun
okay so thalas thought that there was an
eclipse going on at that time it wasn't
an eclipse it was at the wrong time of
the month where you could actually have
an eclipse to bring darkness on the land
during the day where the sun could be
eclipsed and by the way those only last
for a few minutes if you're in the path
of totality
but
jesus was crucified right around
passover
and that means that always happened
around the time of a full moon the only
time you get those eclipses is during
the new moon so it's at the wrong time
of the month so it wasn't that it was
something that was supernatural or
something that god did miraculously
while jesus is on the cross
and he did something similar to the
egyptians as well he brought darkness on
the land
we have plenty of the younger who was a
roman author he served as the governor
of bithynia and asia minor and he's the
nephew of pliny the elder that's why
he's called the younger and he's
recognized as one of the world's
greatest letter writers
he said this christians were in the
habit of meeting on a certain fixed day
before it was light
when they sang an alternate versus a
hymn to christ as to a god what did he
just say christians believed about jesus
that he was god and bound themselves by
a solemn oath not to do any wicked deeds
but to never commit any fraud theft or
adultery never to falsify their word nor
deny a trust when they should be called
upon to deliver it up after which it was
their custom to separate and then
reassemble to partake of food but food
of an ordinary and innocent kind
they don't sound all that bad do they
the way he describes them christians
were honorable people and they believed
that the person they were worshiping
the christ is god
so for the people who say the skeptics
say oh the whole idea that jesus was
never considered to be god until
centuries later which we're going to get
to that by the end of this presentation
you'll hear some of those claims
that would according to to plenty that's
just false
how about tacitus he's a roman historian
who lived over the reigns of six
different roman empires and he's known
as the greatest historian of the ancient
world
and known for his moral integrity he
said this consequently to get rid of the
report nero fastened the guilt and
inflicted the most exquisite tortures on
a class hated for their abominations
called christians by the populace
christus from whom the name had its
origin suffered the extreme penalty
during the reign of tiberius at the
hands of one of our procurators pontius
pilate
and a most mischievous superstition thus
checked for the moment bro again broke
out not only in judea the first source
of the evil but even in rome where all
things hideous and shameful from every
part of the world find their center and
become popular accordingly an arrest was
first made of all who pleaded guilty
then upon their information an immense
multitude was convicted not so much for
the crime of firing the city as of
hatred against mankind mockery of every
sort was added to their deaths covered
with the skins of beast they were torn
by dogs and perished or were nailed to
crosses or were doomed to the flames and
burnt to serve as a nightly illumination
when daylight had expired nero offered
his gardens for the spectacle and was
exhibiting
a show in the circus while he mingled
with the people in a dress
of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car
hence even for criminals who deserved
extreme and exemplary punishment there
arose a feeling of compassion for it was
not as it seemed for the public good but
to glut one man's cruelty that they were
being destroyed so he said quite a bit
about christians and the torment they
endured at the hands of nero but he
tells us that they were following jesus
who was crucified during the days of
pontius pilate
which lines up exactly with what the
bible says and here you have the
greatest roman historian write about it
how can you have skeptics say there's no
ancient writers who wrote about jesus
because there are in fact there's plenty
of them how about suetonius he was the
chief
secretary of emperor hadrian and he had
access to the imperial records he said
because the jews at rome
caused continuous disturbances at the
instigation of christus he expelled them
from the city
now you notice the difference in
spelling there normally it would be
christus with an i instead of an e now
that is almost certainly just a
misspelling because he was used to
hearing it rather than actually seeing
it written down but there's some debate
about that
but he also wrote this
punishments were also inflicted on the
christians they sect professing a new
and mischievous religious belief
so according to swatonius what
christians were teaching was a brand new
idea we're going to hear in just a
little bit that many people are saying
many skeptics are saying oh they just
copied from pagan beliefs
and yet here's a writer saying this is a
new
belief system lucian was a greek
satirist and he criticized christian for
being gullible people and he uses some
rather colorful language to describe us
the christians you know worship a man to
this day wait this is in the second
century they're saying that that
christians worship
jesus
the distinguished person is who
introduced their novel rights their new
beliefs right
and was crucified on that account you
see these misguided creatures start with
the general conviction that they are
immortal for all time which explains the
contempt of death and voluntary
self-devotion which are so common among
them and then it was impressed on them
by their original lawgiver that they are
all brothers from the moment that they
are converted and deny the gods of
greece and worship the crucified sage
and live after his laws all this they
take quite on faith with the result that
they despise all worldly goods alike
regarding them merely as common property
again christians
sounded like they were pretty faithful
what did they do they worshipped the
crucified sage
they're worshiping jesus as god
and yet now we're having skeptics say he
never even existed there's nobody who
wrote about him or we just have this and
that
the whole idea that he was god didn't
come along until much later and hear
loosely and saying yeah they believed he
was god so what can we learn from these
writings and from others that we didn't
have time to get into in his book on
called the historical jesus dr gary
habermas went through 17 ancient
non-christian sources
about the life of jesus and he says
here's what we can summarize from that
and again this is not from without even
using the bible here's what you can
learn about jesus from these sources
jesus ministered and israel had a
brother named james he was a wise and
virtuous man who worked miracles and
accurately foretold future events he had
numerous followers both jew and gentile
he was considered to be both god and man
he was worshipped as god he taught his
followers about immortality and that his
death was the means of life for many
jewish leaders unjustly condemned him
for teaching spiritual apostasy he was
executed by crucifixion under pontius
pilate during tiberius reign
executioners gambled for his clothes
darkness covered the land and
earthquakes occurred
his teachings broke out again after his
death because his followers claimed that
he had risen from the dead jesus
appeared and showed the scars of
crucifixion and he was exalted by god
which might be a reference to his
ascension
all of those things
you can learn about jesus without even
using the bible from ancient
non-christian sources
and yet skeptics today are going around
telling people there are no ancient
sources about jesus and what we just
read there lines up perfectly with
scripture
so did jesus exist yes of course he did
not because these ancient historians
tell us he did even though that's great
evidence for it the best evidence we
have for that is because god's word the
infallible inherent word of god tells us
that he did
how about this one was jesus copied from
pagan gods
now i'm going to read a quote here from
the da vinci code in fact here's the
reason i'm doing i know this is a work
of fiction okay
but here's what it says at the very
beginning of the book all descriptions
of artwork architecture documents and
secret rituals in this novel are
accurate
and then it goes on to make a whole
bunch of wild claims about who jesus is
and the reason i'm using this book is
because i'm going to show you quotes
that were from the da vinci code which
came up back in the early 2000s and then
show you how in the last 10 to 15 years
people are taking those ideas and
putting them into non-fiction books or
at least they're claiming they're
non-fiction uh really much of it's
fiction because of the false claims
about jesus
and they're using the same ideas that
came right from the da vinci code which
actually was borrowed from another book
and by the way this book sold over 85
million copies
okay that's enough for one in every four
people in america to have
that's how wildly popular this book was
but here's what it claims uh one of the
characters says nothing in christianity
is original the pre-christian god
mithras called the son of god and the
light of the world was born on december
25th died and was buried in a rock tomb
and then resurrected in three days by
the way december 25th is also the
birthday of osiris adonis and dionysus
the newborn krishna was presented with
gold frankincense and myrrh even
christianity's weekly holy day was
stolen from the pagans
constantine shifted it to coincide with
the pagans veneration day of the sun
really that happened at the time of
constantine's in the 300s that
christians started meeting on sunday
rather than on the sabbath
then how come in the new testament
in acts 20 we read now on the first day
of the week when the disciples came
together to break bread paul ready to
depart the next day spoke to them and
continued his message until midnight on
what day of the week the first day
of the week that was on sunday and in
first corinthians 16 on the first day of
the week let each one of you lay
something aside
storing up as he may prosper that there
be no collections when i come
so very early on
christians were meeting on sunday not on
the sabbath
but here's the claim this whole idea
that that jesus was just copied from
these different pagan gods who all had
these similar
teachings about them they all had these
similar stories and jesus was just kind
of made up or maybe there was a maybe
there really was a person named jesus
but he certainly wasn't any of these
things and they just copied all these
elements from pagan gods about him to
promote these ideas for example in the
film zeitgeist they talk about horus
they said he was born of a virgin named
isis mary even though there's no record
of her ever be of isis ever having mary
attached to the name on december 25th
and it never there's never any record of
december 25th being his birthday or
anything and by the way that's
irrelevant because the bible never says
jesus was born on december 25th
that's not to our not trying to make an
argument for when he was born and what
time of year any of that it it just
doesn't tell us it was december 25th so
what is happening is here people are
trying to refute
popular ideas about jesus without even
knowing what scripture says
his birth was marked by an easter star
he was eastern star he was adored by
three kings again a detail the bible
does not record
the bible says that magi came to visit
him
and never said there were three of them
they just gave him three gifts
again they're arguing somebody made up
these details about horus and other
these other gods and are arguing against
popular ideas within christianity rather
than what the bible actually says that
he was a teach horace was allegedly a
teacher at age 12 and he was baptized by
somebody named anna the baptizer who was
later beheaded there's no record of that
he started his ministry at age 30 he had
12 disciples he was a miracle worker he
was called the lamb of god and the light
he was crucified and rose from the dead
three days later and young people are
eating these things up
they think wow christians just ripped
off all this mythology and they do the
same thing with these other savior
figures as well
they say no the christians have borrowed
from all of these
well i could spend some time going
through each one of them and refuting
them but rather than do that let me
share with you a rather humorous video
by a group called lutheran satire and
you can find this on youtube horace
ruins christmas and i'm going to let
this
this pastor
refute these claims by horus
well thanks to all of you for coming out
to our service this morning and i pray
that the rest of this christmas day is
wonderful for each and every one of you
not so fast preacher man
behold it is i horus egyptian god of the
sun and while you all believe that
you've been celebrating the birth of
your lord jesus you've really been
celebrating the birth of me for you see
thousands of years before your jesus
came around i horus was born on december
25th i horus was born of a virgin i
horus was baptized by a man called
arnoff the baptizer was crucified and
was resurrected three days later so you
see your jesus is nothing more than
plagiarized poppycock and i horus have
come to feast upon the sorrow of you
foolish christians
yeah none of the stuff you just said is
true yes it is no there's no reference
in egyptian mythology to horus being
crucified or resurrected three days
later there's no documentation anywhere
for the existence of a figure named anap
the baptizer horus his mother was not a
virgin woman but the goddess isis and
there is no specific date anywhere tied
to the birth of horus
i'm pretty sure there is actually no all
of these claims and many others
indicating that early christians yinked
the mythology of horus and stuck it on
top of jesus were all completely made up
by gerald massey a 19th century cuckoo
banana bird self-taught egyptologist who
never provided the slightest shred of
evidence for any of these claims and who
was laughed out of the room by every
serious egyptologist on the planet so
thank you very much for your attempt to
ruin our celebration of christ's birth
but i'm afraid we're all still having a
very merry christmas horus horus did i
say my name was horus no no what i meant
to say was behold it is i mithras roman
cult of god of the something something
and by you all believes that you've been
celebrating the birth of jesus you've
really been celebrating the birth of me
for you see i mithras was born of a
virgin i mithras had twelve disciples
and i mithras gave those disciples a
meal consisting of my body owned my
blood sound familiar christian dummies
actually mithras was born from a rock
not of a virgin he had two companions
not 12 disciples and the mythic meal was
one he shared with the sun god where
they feasted not on his own flesh but on
the flesh of a bull but even if those
claims were true christians were already
confessing the virgin birth recognizing
the twelve apostles and celebrating the
lord's supper before they ever
encountered any mythric cults so i'm
afraid that you've taken neither the
holly nor the jolly out of our christmas
mithras oh you must have misheard me i'm
not mithras i'm uh
that's the cultural aztec god of the
wind and value all sings that you've no
christian on the face of the planet ever
heard of ketsukoto until the 16th
century there's an i'm
folder norse god there were
193 popes before baldur's mythology was
actually written down then i'm horus
egyptian god of the sun you already did
that one
and it actually is somewhat humorous the
arguments that they will use
but the sad part is so many young people
buy into it
because they're looking for reasons to
not believe the claims of christ and we
need to be prepared just like this guy
in the video to answer those questions
because you can see how easily they're
shot down in his book on the on the
resurrection of the son of god nt wright
it's about 800 pages long he spent
several hundred pages looking at the
all the teachings about resurrection in
all the different cultures and around
the mediterranean for 400 years before
the time of christ to the 400 years
afterwards and showed the whole idea the
christian view of the resurrection was
not found anywhere among those groups
okay they didn't believe that somebody
would come and that he would die and
then rise from the dead immediately
after that what they're talking about
what some of the pagans believe is that
their god was the sun god or something
or the god of the harvest so every
winter they would die and then they
would rise again every spring that has
nothing to do with what the bible speaks
of when it's talking about jesus rising
from the dead
and so in his book when paul preached in
athens nobody said ah yes a new version
of osiris and such like
because it was a new idea in fact the
whole idea of the resurrection that you
would have a bodily resurrection that
was abhorrent to the greeks they hated
that idea that's why it was so difficult
for them to understand it that's why
even the believers in corinth paul had
to spend 58 verses in first corinthians
15 explaining it to them
because they really struggled that
concept of a bodily resurrection
not just christ's resurrection but our
own future bodily resurrection
in his book mike lacona said this about
these copycat claims mythers they're
known as christ mythers and these guys
who are doing copycat uh teaching
mithras are often guilty of twisting
data providing false claims appealing to
other sources who are also not scholars
requiring an unreasonable burden of
proof before acknowledging the existence
of jesus while being unaware that the
scenarios they have proposed in order to
address the data border on unbridled
fantasy readers should understand that
publishing on the world wide web does
not make one a world-class scholar since
the only credential one must have to
publish on the internet is to breathe
so all of these claims about copycats
they stretch any sort of similarity they
can find they invent facts they bring up
all sorts of irrelevant details really
it's just modern make believe and a lot
of times what happens is the other
groups actually came along later and
then adopted some of the christian
beliefs in some of these cases and then
people will say oh the christians
borrowed that even though christians
were already claiming that so let me uh
allow horus and the pastor to finish up
here on this issue
i don't understand if all the things
that gerald massey said about me were
complete fabrications there's no textual
evidence whatsoever why do atheists like
bill maher reference these claims as if
they were true well horus i suppose it
is strange that people who insist that
they won't believe anything without
verifiable evidence are more than
willing to believe anything without
verifiable evidence as long as that
thing can be used to mock the gospel but
we shouldn't be surprised when people
reject proof of christ's resurrection in
favor of demonstrable lies that let them
remain in unbelief after all jesus did
say if they do not hear moses and the
prophets neither will they be convinced
if someone should rise from the dead
i said that before jesus did oh you
absolutely did not
well i think that summarizes it pretty
well as far as this whole idea that
jesus was copied from from other pagan
saviors so to speak or pagan gods
the whole idea is nonsensical but again
be prepared to hear that because this is
what young people are being taught
how about this one was jesus married
again from the da vinci code the early
church needed to convince the world that
the mortal prophet jesus was a divine
being therefore any any gospels that
described earthly aspects of jesus's
life had to be omitted from the bible
really we had to omit gospels from the
bible that that describe earthly aspects
of jesus's life yeah you probably never
read about matthew mark luke and john
about how jesus became tired or how he
became angry or how he wept
any of those things right
now the bible is very clear that he is
fully man and he's fully god
continuing on unfortunately for the
early editors one particularly troubling
earthly theme kept recurring in the
gospels mary magdalene more specifically
her marriage to jesus christ
really where did the gospels ever say
jesus was married to mary magdalene
they don't and there's no early writing
that says that
but this is something that became very
popular since the time of the da vinci
code and even a little bit before that
but this really popularized the idea in
fact that's really what the whole book
is about there's a spoiler alert for you
uh one of the characters is allegedly a
descendant of jesus and mary magdalene
but these ideas were repeated
about seven years ago in a book called
the lost gospel by
yakubovic and barry wilson what the
vatican feared what and dan brown the da
vinci code only suspected has come true
but now we have a document that claims
that he was indeed married and fathered
children not only this our document
indicates that for some of his original
followers jesus's marriage was the most
important aspect of their theology
this is complete fabrication what
they've done is they found a writing
from the inter-testamental period
between the time of the clothes of the
old testament and new testament before
jesus's earthly ministry before his
earthly life
it's about joseph from the old testament
and his wife assanath
and they say well this this was really
written during the christian period even
though it was written by jews before the
time of christ and they'll say it was
all just code for jesus and mary
magdalene
because of course the early church
allegedly had so much power that if they
found out that people were writing this
they would have put them to death that's
the claims in this book
again complete nonsense the early church
didn't have power in fact they were
being persecuted just about every place
they went
but this book came out at a good time
for this whole idea because just a year
earlier this
little fragment was produced
or was published maybe it would be a
better way to say it it was produced
just a couple years before that there's
a little bit of a spoiler for you but
this is known as the gospel of jesus's
wife
maybe you remember the news on that
here's a picture of karen king from
harvard showing off the gospel of
jesus's wife fragment
well what is the gospel of jesus's wife
well it's just a little fragment of
a larger document
presumably it doesn't it's cut off on
both sides so you don't get to have the
wording
that's to the left or the right of it
but here's what the translation is it's
written in coptic and it
supposedly dates back to the fourth
century
so even 300 years after jesus and we're
supposed to believe that this is
authoritative about whether he was
married or not
not to me my mother gave me life
then it goes on to the next line the
disciples said to jesus
deny mary is not worthy of it jesus said
to them my wife
there's the key
phrase
she is able to be my disciple let wicked
people swell up as for me i am with her
in order to
an image
there's the translation of what's on
that little fragment
and from this we call this people call
this the gospel of jesus's wife
well how did the news report this new
york times a faded piece of papyrus
refers to jesus's wife abc news with
jesus married ancient papyrus mentions
his wife huffington post two years later
this is after some more research was
done on it
gospel of jesus wife papyrus is ancient
not fake scientists and scholars say
smithsonian the gospel of jesus's wife
is most likely not a modern fake
chemical analysis shows the text was
written thousands of years ago
i'm not sure how it would be thousands
of years ago if it's about jesus because
he hadn't even been crucified and
resurrected thousands of years ago but
that's just a little bit
nitpicky there but why is karen king the
person who was able to receive this
fragment the person who who gave it to
her why karen king
well maybe because she's known as a
feminist scholar and here's what she
wrote in a book called the gospel of
mary magdalene or mary of magdala
about this book this astonishingly brief
narrative represents a radical
interpretation of jesus's teachings as a
path to inner spiritual knowledge
it rejects his suffering and death as
the path to eternal life it exposes the
erroneous view that mary of magdala was
a prostitute for what it is a piece of
theological fiction and by the way
that's about the only point in here that
i would sort of agree with the bible
never says that mary magdalene was a
prostitute it says she was a sinner it
says that she had seven demons cast out
of her
but it never says that that she was a
prostitute maybe maybe she was but again
we don't know that for sure but let's
continue on it presents the most
straightforward and convincing argument
in any early christian writing for the
legitimacy of women's leadership it
offered a sharp critique of illegitimate
power and a utopian vision of spiritual
perfection it challenges our rather
romantic views about the harmony and
unanimity of the first christians and it
asks us to rethink the basis for church
authority all written in the name of a
woman
so
that might give you a clue as to why
the person who
discovered this fragment gave it to
karen king because he knew this is
something that she would really like and
that she would run with it now she did
publish well she did write a journal
article for harvard i believe it's
harvard theological review is what it's
called and in that article she's much
more cautious than she was in some of
the more popular statements that were
being made and the way the news media
was running with it but in 2016 the
atlantic published an article called the
unbelievable tale of jesus's wife by
ariel sabar
and if you want to read a really good
article
documenting documentary
investigative journalism this would be a
great one to look up now make sure you
have about an hour to read it because
it's very lengthy but this author
tracked down
he had to go to europe to what used to
be east germany he had to go down to
florida to try to find this guy who
ended up giving the document to
karen king and when he went through all
of the research he discovered that the
entire thing was a complete fraud it was
done by a guy named walter fritz who was
a former student of coptic and he was a
very bright student he picked it up very
easily but he was kind of more
interested in
the party life so he left his studies
and for a while he lived in it was right
before when the berlin wall fell he
lived he worked in a museum in east
germany in east berlin
and he actually stole fragments of
documents there and he
apparently used some of those ancient
documents to forge this whole idea of
the gospel of jesus's wife and he
claimed it was he confessed that he did
this and yeah the reason that he chose
king he marked her because he knew that
she would run with it
so the whole thing's a complete forgery
where are all those news headlines
telling us the thing was a
fake okay they don't make headline news
they're not on the media when this is
discovered no it's just back page if
it's ever mentioned at all
because people are looking for anything
to go against what the bible teaches
about jesus
and you know what this is an important
time to bring up this idea if anything
comes up if there's this new discovery
that allegedly settles a brand new
modern debate
maybe it's just too convenient to be
true
so anytime something up comes up like
that so if there's a very hot topic in
our culture and then somebody finds an
old document that jesus supposedly said
this about it
you might want to question it for
example
how about morton smith in what's known
as the marsaba letter
where he claims to have found part of
the secret gospel of mark something that
had been hinted at for years where there
were extra verses in the gospel of mark
somewhere and morton smith claimed to
have found them in fact he said that he
found this writing that was in greek in
the back of this this other book that
had had been written in some and he
found these pages
and here's what it says now remember in
the gospel mark there's this really
weird passage where when jesus was
arrested
in the garden of gethsemane there was a
young man there who was wearing nothing
but a linen cloth and the soldier took
hold of him grabbed the cloth and he
took off and fled naked there's just
that one verse in mark that's a little
bit strange well this writing plays off
of that and look what it says
but the youth looking upon him loved him
and began to beseech him that he might
be with him and going out of the tomb
they came into the house of the youth
for he was rich and after six days jesus
gave him instruction and in the evening
the youth comes to him wearing a linen
cloth over his naked body and he
remained with him that night for jesus
was teaching him quote the mystery of
the kingdom of god end quote and thence
arising he returned to the other side of
the jordan
what did this document just imply about
jesus
and this young man that they were
homosexuals
would it surprise any of you
that many scholars have noted that the
writing that mort smith allegedly found
the greek writing actually matched his
own greek writing
and several people who knew him said
that he was a closet homosexual now many
people have denied that as well so
that's debatable
but either way he forges this document
to speak to a much more modern issue and
he makes this claim about jesus that
jesus was a homosexual
and yet there's no evidence for anything
like that in
of course not in the gospel then of
course he's not
but back to this question about whether
jesus was married and by the way if you
think that's offensive just wait we're
going to see that they make some even
even more wild claims than that
so a lot of times christians will give
kind of a knee-jerk reaction to this
question of course not he he wasn't
married because the church is his bride
okay well
first of all that that's a metaphor
that's being used in the bible the
church doesn't actually become like one
woman who marries jesus that's that's
not what it's describing it's talking
about the union we have with christ it
also says that the church is his body
and that he is the head of the body okay
these are metaphors that are being used
to help us understand our unity with
christ some people just say well that's
blasphemy
well think about that is necessarily
blasphemous because marriage was around
before sin marriage at the beginning was
very good
so that's maybe not the best response
either
some people say well mary magdalene
never referred to him as the husband
just as her teacher well that doesn't
prove anything
so we need to give better responses be a
little more careful in how we answer yes
the bible is silent on the issue in the
sense that
it never tells us in any statement jesus
was not married
okay but in this case the silence is
deafening because we have so many
details about his life and ministry that
is something that would probably come up
okay it talks about peter's
mother-in-law
and paul even mentions that as well that
peter's married so i mean we do have
certain details about some of them
jesus knew his purpose he knew that he
came to this earth not to raise not to
get married and raise a family he knew
that he had come to die on the cross for
our sins
so would he really get married and then
have to leave them when one with a young
child and everything uh because he knows
he's gonna be crucified at a certain
time
no of course not the early church
fathers actually denied this they said
he wasn't married and it creates a lot
of theological dilemmas or difficulties
because jesus is
fully god and fully man and the bible
speaks about when two people
come together husband and wife come
together that the two become one flesh
okay so if jesus unites that way with a
sinner what happens then and if they
have children what
what do they become
okay the demigods what
they see the problems there there's no
evidence whatsoever that jesus was
married and there's all sorts of
evidence to the contrary but this is an
idea anything to go against the biblical
teaching about who jesus is people will
rush to it they'll buy into it
so maybe you've heard this phrase the
historical jesus before is the
historical jesus different than the
biblical jesus well there's been
historical jesus studies going on since
the late 1700s there's been three
different
quests or three different waves of this
where
you know he started way back then where
they were trying to figure out if you
demythologize the bible if you remove
the supernatural elements what can we
learn about jesus and then for a while
people thought there's nothing new to
learn
and then since the 1950s that's really
picked up again this is the jesus
seminar represents what's called the new
quest and then in the 1980s there's a
new movement called the third quest
which actually is becoming much more in
line with what scripture says about him
but let's focus on the jesus seminar for
a little bit
because this is what uh a lot of the the
television shows you see about
christianity especially at this time of
year if you watch if you turn on history
channel or discovery channel and they
have shows about the real jesus and who
he was you're going to hear certain
things and most a lot of times it comes
from these these people who are part of
what's called the jesus seminar and what
they did is they gathered together
several times during the 1980s it was a
group of
scholars from all different backgrounds
okay
mostly liberal scholars and i'm not
talking about politically i'm talking
about theologically
they they didn't believe the miracles in
the bible they don't believe that jesus
is the son of god and then they get a
bunch of like-minded people together
they even had a filmmaker who has no
theological training made some of the
raunchiest films ever made in hollywood
and all of these people are part of the
jesus seminar and what they did is they
got together to vote
on the words of jesus they use these
colored beads they'd use a red bead if
they think jesus surely spoke these
words a pink beat if the words likely
came from him a gray beat of g if jesus
didn't say that but the ideas are kind
of similar to his and a black beat if he
definitely did not say this
and this is considered to be scholarship
can you imagine getting a room full of
bible-believing christians together and
say let's vote on the words of jesus how
well do you think the gospels would do
you'd have a hundred percent every
single time
in just about every single case
okay yeah there are a couple verses that
are disputed and that's a different
topic for another time but for the most
part we're going to agree yeah jesus
said that because here's what scripture
tells us but how did the gospels fare oh
and they also included the gospel of
time as something that was written 100
years after
the gospel of john it wasn't written by
thomas
it wasn't written by an eyewitness but
let's take a look at how these comp how
these did
so you can see matthew doesn't fare very
well there you've only got 11 red beads
that where jesus definitely said this
okay
but look down at the gospel of john
let's focus there because of time we've
got to kind of get through
this zero statements that jesus
definitely said and one statement that
maybe he likely said from john 4 where
he says the prophet is not without honor
except in his own country that's the
only verse in the gospel of john that
the jesus seminar said yeah that
probably came from jesus they reject
everything else
as far as the words of jesus in the
gospels but look at the gospel of thomas
it actually does better
than all the other gospels
the one that was written 100 years later
not by any eyewitness they say oh yeah
these are the ones that this we can have
more trust in this
and this is scholarship
no it's nonsense is what it is but
why do you think the gospel of john did
so poorly in their eyes well i think
it's pretty obvious and it goes back to
john's purpose statement in the gospel
of john in john chapter 20 he said this
and truly jesus did many other signs in
the presence of his disciples which are
not written in this book but these are
written that you may believe that jesus
is the christ the son of god and that by
believing you may have life in his name
the purpose of john's gospel was to show
you that who jesus really is that he's
the son of god and that by believing in
him you can have eternal life
and so the jesus seminar says nope none
of those words are from jesus
well what else did they find about jesus
well they said that his father was a
roman soldier that the virgin birth was
borrowed from apollo's affair with a
woman let me ask you a question how is
apollo's affair with a woman
how does that inspire the idea of a
virgin birth
according to them jesus was not born in
bethlehem there was no roman census in
the time of augustus judas was invented
as an anti-semitic slur and jesus was
just buried in a shallow grave
and i'll get into that one in my next
talk which will air tomorrow at noon um
i'll be getting into that issue about
whether jesus is just buried in a
shallow grave and then his body eaten by
by animals so you want to tune in for
that one as well that's gonna that'll be
on easter sunday at noon
so really what happens with these whole
historical jesus studies really you just
see what you want to see
one person said historical jesus studies
have been compared to a man who looks
into a deep well to find out what jesus
was like only to find the reflection of
himself there attempts have been made to
label jesus as a revolutionary cynic
feminist hippie social justice warrior
homosexual or transgender
don't believe me
was jesus gay probably
from the guardian
jesus the first transgender man
well it gets worse jesus was drag queen
with queer desires claims theology
professor
i wish
these were just that that this was just
made up
i mean these claims are made up
obviously but i wish these weren't being
published i wish this isn't what people
were being taught but they are
sometimes people are just trying to be
as provocative as possible the problem
is
where do a lot of people get their news
today
youtube facebook instagram from their
friends not
from something that's well researched
not from not checking it out not making
sure it's actually accurate
and then they run with it
so who was the historical jesus well
he's the same jesus that we read about
in the bible because what the bible
tells us is historically accurate he is
the son of god the second person of the
trinity he's the way the truth and the
life just like he claimed to be he's our
sinless savior and he was crucified and
resurrected he's our great high priest
and returning judge he's a manual
meaning and he's also fully god and
fully man he is king of kings and lord
of lords and let's deal with one more
question here actually there's two parts
to this one was jesus deified at the
council of nicaea that was hinted at
earlier and this is something that we
see again in the da vinci code in fact
for a lot of these people almost
everything hinges on the council of
nicea they lump all of that in in 325
a.d
many church leaders gather together in
nicaea and
all sorts of ideas get thrown into there
but here's what da vinci code says jesus
establishment as the son of god was
officially proposed and voted on by the
council of nicaea
hold on you're saying jesus divinity was
the result of a vote
a relatively close vote at that
this is right out of the da vinci code
well
since then we have this book by gays of
eremis christian beginnings
from nazareth to nicaea this book is
meant to guide readers along the
evolutionary path from the jesus of
history toward the christ deified at the
council of nicea there's the claim again
so
the early church didn't believe jesus
was god
if that's the case then how can
ignations in one around 105 uh say god
himself was manifested in human form
clement says it is fitting that you
should think of jesus christ as of god
irenaeus said he is god for the name
immanuel indicates this origen said no
one should be offended but the savior is
also god novation said he is not only
man but god also cyprian said jesus
christ our lord and god
all of these church fathers from before
the time of the council and i see it was
very clear that
jesus is god
so what really happened at nicaea
well it was called by the emperor
constantine to resolve the aryan crisis
arius had already been declared a
heretic four years earlier in alexandria
he was he believed something similar to
what jehovah's witnesses teach today
where they say that jesus is not
almighty god he's a mighty god so he's
the first creation of god and then he
makes everything else
and arius was going around teaching
things like that that jesus was a
created being he was not the creator
himself
and that idea had already been shown to
be heresy four years earlier but he
continued promoting it in fact he would
teach these little rhyming couplets and
it made it popular people could remember
it easily
and so he was teaching that jesus is a
created being
and so they gathered together and i see
and they did actually rule on this
over 300 bishops affirmed the
traditional view that jesus is divine
two
voted in favor of areas and yet the da
vinci codes this is a relatively close
vote i believe it was 316 to 2.
i'm not sure what
universe they're living in where that's
a close score
there's other myths about nicaea that
they determined the biblical canon at
the time of nicaea but actually the
canon for the most part was recognized
long before that there were still a few
disputed books of usually the very small
books like jude second peter james was
one of them for a little while those
ones would be disputed for quite a while
but it wasn't until about 70 years later
in the 390s when there were church
councils that i actually said here's the
official canon of the new testament now
the church is not the one that
determines the canon god determines it
because the holy spirit's the one who
is inspiring those writings
the church discovers
those the canon the church
recognizes it
because we have the holy spirit within
us and we recognize his voice
constantine ordered the publication of
50 bibles in the destruction of other
gospels is another myth and this is
promoted throughout the da vinci code he
did order the publication of 50 bibles
but we don't know if that was ever
carried out
but the whole idea that all these other
so-called gospels were ordered to be
destroyed as nonsense
uh so what actually happened at nicaea
well there was the establishment of the
nicene creed uh they standardized the
date of easter and that's why it moves
around every single year because of what
uh how they how they determined they
would
set the date and they established 20
different canon laws mostly about
christian living in church leadership
so let's
wrap it up by looking at the second part
of this question did jesus himself ever
claim to be god because we'll have
skeptics saying no he never made such a
claim
john 8 58 jesus
said to them most assuredly i say to you
before abraham was i am
hinting at the old testament recognition
of who god is that and jesus saying
that's me
and
the jews there knew what he was claiming
because when he made claims like this
they picked up stones and tried to stone
him because they said he was blaspheming
because he was claiming to be god
and i give them eternal life and they
shall never perish and neither shall
anyone snatch them out of my hand i and
my father are one
jesus is claiming equality with the
father
in mark chapter two why does this man
speak blasphemies like this who can
forgive sins but god alone but
immediately when jesus perceived in the
spirit that they reasoned thus within
themselves he said to them why do you
reason about these things in your heart
which is easier to say to the paralytic
your sins are forgiven you or to say
arise take up your bed and walk but that
you may know that the son of man has
power on earth to forgive sins he said
to the paralytic i say to you arise take
up your bed and go to your house
demonstrating
his authority not only to
to heal people but also to forgive sins
and then
and maybe the clearest statement in the
gospels and this one the one of the
reasons this is important because mark
is often considered uh by biblical
scholars to be the earliest of the
gospels written and this passage even
critical scholars will acknowledge that
this was something that was said the
high priest asked jesus when he's on
trial there
are you the christ the son of the
blessed
so what is jesus going to do is he going
to back down here at this point he's
going to say no no guys you're
misunderstanding what i'm talking about
or is he actually going to go
and boldly proclaim who he is take a
look
jesus said i
am
and you will see the son of man sitting
at the right hand of power and coming on
the clouds of heaven four times in that
passage jesus said that's exactly who i
am not only did he just say i am he used
the the term son of man which is going
back to daniel chapter 7 referring to
the the one who is in that vision who
approaches the ancient of days the son
of man approaches the ancient days and
is given authority by the ancient of
days
so here's this divine figure in heaven
and jesus says that's me he's at the
right hand of power and he's the one who
comes on the clouds of heaven you know
who comes in the clouds of heaven in the
old testament yahweh does
the god of israel does the god of heaven
and earth and jesus says that's me
and that's why the high priest at this
point tore his his clothes and said it
was blasphemy and if jesus was not
really god it would have been
blasphemous
but jesus is god and we teach this in
our exhibit as well
in
the christ cross consummation exhibit in
fact
let's sum up this message and even the
message of really of the whole creation
museum of that exhibit as well
because we know that god created
a perfect world without sin suffering
and death and yet the first adam
wrecked it through
his sin through his rebellion
when he ate of the fruit that god said
you shall not eat
he brought sin and death and suffering
into this world but god already had a
plan to redeem us and he
sent his son to become one of us to be
born of a virgin to live a sinless life
and when he was tempted to not go
forward
he succeeded he said not my will but
your will be done and he went to the
cross as our sacrifice
in our place the son of god died for us
so that our sins can be wiped away so
that our sins can be forgiven so that
when god looks at us he doesn't see our
sin and wretchedness instead he sees the
righteousness of the son of god
those who have placed their faith in
jesus christ
those who have been justified by faith
in christ
have their sins forgiven and thrown as
far as the east is from the west
and are washed as white as snow we can
experience forgiven a forgiveness from
god through what jesus christ has done
and it doesn't end there because three
days later
he conquered the grave when he rose from
the dead
and showed himself alive by many
infallible proofs which i'll also be
talking about in tomorrow's session in
fact that's what the whole thing is
going to be about on easter sunday at
noon eastern you want to tune in for
that
but um
jesus showed himself alive by many
infallible proofs demonstrating that he
had conquered death he had power over
the grave
giving us the hope and the guarantee of
eternal life to all who believe in him
in fact here's what jesus said i am the
resurrection and the life he who
believes in me though he may die he
shall live and whoever lives and
believes in me shall never die do you
believe this
and this is why
so many skeptics will believe anything
about jesus other than the truth
because
either they love their sin too much or
for whatever reason they are too
prideful they just don't want to bow the
knee
to christ but the book of philippians
tells us that someday every knee will
bow and every every tongue will confess
that jesus christ is lord of the glory
of god the father
we have the opportunity to do that now
willingly
if we haven't done so already and those
who hold off those who maybe are too
prideful those who for whatever reason
don't want jesus as lord someday they're
still going to kneel
and proclaim that jesus is lord but by
then it'll be too late for them and
they'll be sentenced to eternity apart
from him
and i don't want that for anyone
believe in the one who said he is the
resurrection and the life and then went
out and proved it by dying on the cross
and rising from the dead
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