Historical Christian Evidences

matter of fact everybody knows that right exactly to call to action. Yes. That's right that we shouldn't be emotionless. We're saying it. All the point is you don't use that emotion to judge the truth of your face. You don't use that emotion to try to tell others about it. I mean, that's great. You can tell people that your joyful. In a crisis about joy into your life. But the only reason that he has at least the only reason that he should have and you should have that Joy is because you know, what happened is true.

It's not talk about the accident we have to ask.

Well that comes with the knowledge right? Although it is so we got a kind of real careful. I I want to be really careful in trying to navigate around that because I think sometimes. We in the Churches of Christ and go a little too far and saying there's a lot of people say what which says that you are not the way that they would.

You are not responsible for your salvation in any way shape or form. that God chooses you whether you have

what are you even heard the gospel that God selected you and he's going to save you you had no choice in the matter that's on one in. On the other end is the religious extremism of legalism and don't forget to ask for Penance for the one thing that you did even if you don't remember it. You're doomed to hell.

I don't think scripture teaches either one of those things.

But we know we have to hear. And we know we have to believe. What do we have to believe our feelings? So that's what we're going to get after. Here shortly. I'll read some scriptures. Can somebody look up numbers 15? 37 through 40 Anna someone else grab proverbs 28:26 Anna someone else Proverbs 14:12

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Okay, I got it.

The Lord said to Moses. Speak to the people of Israel and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations and it put a cordon bleu on the corner and it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the Commandments of the Lord to do them not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to her after so you shall remember and do all my Commandments and behold our God. So until tomorrow to go to Pro Proverbs just yet. What was the point of the blue cord in their tassel?

Is that the Commandments and why his Commandments?

What's remind them of their Commandments and to say hey when you see them know that you follow my Commandments and not after your own heart.

Why? Your heart leave me alone. It's not the same.

99% of the time now I think and I worded this carefully later to say you're not follow your heart not follow up your own mind unless it's been trained and you are a leading the life that has been trained by scripture. Right and that way that's the only way that we would be able to walk and it actually be in accordance to God's will is if it's trained his Commandments?

28 / 6 some therapy. Just want to read that.

Again, same concept right we trust in our own hearts are walking around Waze. What are we don't be foolish. Another point that we can make is don't be foolish and trusting yourself to make good choices. In your self there is not wisdom. There was wisdom and it sourced from God.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately sick who can understand. It is desperately wicked.

again, trust in your heart Which is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked or sick is not great advice runs countercultural again. What most people say follow your heart?

and then Proverbs again, 14:12 and then also Proverbs 16:25 this is mentioned multiple times the Book of Proverbs wisdom literature and says there is a way which seems right to a man but its end is the way to death. So person following their own heart calling their mom walking in the ways. They think they should go that leads to death pick up the pace here.

People throughout the ages right throughout history. I've always wanted to point to their feelings as definitive proof. I feel this is true. So that's what I'm going to live for and it's led to us today being in this culture. Where we don't take this book seriously because we feel like it's wrong. In general, but I'm saying we in the world.

What's the Bible tell us what you just read? What do you think about that, right?

Jeremiah 10:23 says I know that the way of man is not in himself that it is not in man who walks his steps. How did Jeremiah feel this way? How did he know it was Jeremiah able to say I know this God revealed it to him. Revealed to him this truth as he has already done as he is done in Proverbs.

I know. A man cannot walk find a way himself. The Bible's position is what?

I think when I follow up her own thoughts if they're apart from God's word.

We're taking things that are different for God's word or not. Follow those things. Subjectivism kind of sum up two decks lights dangerous because it can lead people to leave us truth except false religion and accept. We seen that in the world today.

When I mentioned Sunday how a lot of people in the world and Proclaim to be followers of Christ who have made the claim that homosexuality is now okay. It's not sinful living that lifestyle and even be a preacher of the word so why we feel like it is that's that would be

Christianity is not proved by subjectivism. Select the statement in yellow and tell me how it makes you feel I think at first glance it probably make a lot of people feel uncomfortable. Christianity is not based on a set of teachings that is moral teachings on it saying. You'll see what I'm saying. But events that occurred in history thoughts.

Now the key word here is based. I'm not saying that there are the teachings are unimportant in any way shape or form, of course. Would you disagree? Yeah, I agree. But without certain historic events the teachings with mean what?

Who's this? We are all the teachings of Jesus. That we have in Scripture. But it was proven that Jesus never actually lived that he was never actually a human that accept what on this Earth.

What would Christianity be worth nothing?

nothing agree disagree I figured some people have some thoughts. Right. And so that's one that's the teachings. I'm not referring to. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, and that's after I read this the second time that I'm not talking about the teaching of the actual historical events. I'm talking about a moral code. As set forth in scripture, if we took out the historical events and said they're still would there be value? Or Christian if if the events were taken out of it. Such as Jesus living the crucifixion the death burial and resurrection of Christ.

No. no, I mean, let's go to 1st Corinthians, 15:12 proclaimed is raised from the dead. How can someone do you say that there is no resurrection of the dead but there is no resurrection of the dead then Christ has been raised and if Christ has not been raised in our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. We're even found to be misrepresenting God because we testified about God that he was raised Christ. We didn't raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. Precedex praise and even Christ has not been raised. New Christ has not been raised your faith is futile. And you were still in your send those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished in Christ. We have hope in this life. We are all people.

Christianity unlike other religions

Might and you would live a good life if you held the teachings of Christ.

But there's a lot of religions that have good teaching.

Christianity is not about the teaching at its base. It's a historical Redemptive plan. Has its base its foundation as a historical religion events that actually happened. It's over basing our faith in anything other than those things.

Or mostly Petty. I mean those things are not the most important part I guess is what I'm getting at.

So Christianity as a system as a religion is a historical religion. I took place in time and space and it appeals that Circle eyewitnesses of those time and place events as testimony of the proof of the things that happen. I don't know that anything happened in the past.

How do we know that 9/11 happened?

Most of us all that but you know you talk to a lot of kids and they never saw it. I don't know what happened. pictures of all that now.

Sought Basalt experience

How do we know any of the things in in past history with the before photographs about how do we know that those things happen? battles of the Civil War sing movie recordings of it that has a happened live. No, but no app.

Are passed down through generations. We know those things happen the same thing and that's how we are going to know that Christianity.

And that's a dependent on the eyewitness testimony that we have. The scriptures real quick. I'll be up there on the screen. I think they point out. The historical nature of the things that happened in as much as this is Luke one once before as much as many have undertaken to compile A Narrative of the things that have been accomplished Among Us just as those who from the beginning where eyewitnesses and Ministers of the word that delivered them to us. It's in good to me also having followed all things closely for some time past to write an orderly account for you. Most excellent Theophilus that you may have certainty concerning the things on top. Who does Luke say that he's going to consult he has consulted for this account that he's writing down.

Eyewitnesses robbed the people talk people were there. He's gone. He's collected this information from people who were there?

John 17:20, which we read about on Sunday read through on Sunday God that Jesus High Priestly prayer. I do not ask for these only but also for those who believe he's going to send out. We were to believe through what are feelings. their work John 20:26 to 38 days later is disciples were inside again and Thomas was with them all though. The doors were locked. Jesus came and stood among them and said peace be with you. They said the Thomas put your finger here and see my hands and put it in my side. Do not disbelieve but believe remember the other Apostles I had seen Jesus and Thomas wasn't there to see him and he said I'm not going to believe unless I see him. Awesome able to put my hand on the the wounds. Jesus allows him this opportunity.

Thomas says my Lord and my God. What's easy for us to read over that? But have you ever thought how much of a Blasphemous saying that would have been for a Jewish man to say to another man if it wasn't true?

Jesus said to them have you believe because you have seen me blessed are those who have not seen me and yet have believed. Jesus did many other signs in the presence of disciples which are not written in this book. Why do we believe

That same Jesus we didn't see him while he walked on this Earth. Messina's miracles in person We didn't even get to see the Miracles and the Deeds that the apostles did.

Well, we believe the eyewitness testimony of those who did We Believe those people who wrote those things down for us to read about in his word so the whole point of this class It's a proof that the Bible is a history book and that is a history book that's reliable to report the events as they happened and that they claim to report. List of our proposition there in this class is to go throughout week by week. We're going to try to do this. truth Christian objectivity here But there is a bunch of evidence from historical sources to prove that Jesus is the son of God and that the Bible is the word of God. Going to do that by many ways. We're going to do it through a system of argumentation rollover the stork reliability of the documents New Testament documents. relative prophecy outside sources outside of scripture things inside of scripture obviously We're going to systemize. Those things are going to look at it. We're going to argue. But all those things work together to tell us that the Bible God's word is an accurate history book that is reliable to teach us what we need to know to have faith in Christ.

What time does when we get out of here?

I'm going to pick on a song.

Turn to 20. I know everybody has a song that sometimes we sing it and they kind of go in there. Yeah, I don't know if I'm not sure about the theological correctness of that song. I love this song.

I'm not picking on it and saying we shouldn't my feeling about this song have no objective nature about the song. But it always kind of bothers me and I have an alternative lyrics that are near sketchy.

the end of this song We sing. That's right loud and proud. He lives he lives you ask me how I know he lives. What's the answer? directions we go out and evangelize. Somebody would go out to talk to somebody tried to tell them about Jesus and they go how do you know that? What's in my heart? As true as an answer of that may be spiritually. Is that going to convince somebody?

Is that not just to them and appeal for feelings to feelings?

How do I know he lives I would insist on to send it to heaven to be sitting at the right hand of God song.

But that's more accurate answer.

people song after he was dead after I put him in a tomb and every came out of the Grave people saw him. They put his hand in his flash in the heaven. I saw him after the fact that Steven was being stoned as the clouds Heaven open and he was standing right hand of God.

I don't know how you fit that in that song but it's a better answer my opinion. You ask me how I know it because I can read scripture so I can read all picking on that song. You're welcome.

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I hope that this would be beneficial. Have you ever?

Went through I asked Don and if we had gone through a Christian evidences class recently recently that I think so, what word is this class though?

It's good to go through. I think it's going to go through every every year. So hopefully we'll find it enjoyable. I hope that when you come out the other side when I went through this class personally really straight to my face. It's an old scriptures and to look at how we got them where they come from. How old? How close to the original some of our oldest New Testament documents all? Pretty sounding in to see how they don't vary. They're almost nearly identical in the ways that they are changed. It's not significant to the text or the points of those things work together. And you see how God has providentially brought his word up throughout history so that we can have this eyewitness testimony and that it can be used for our faith so that we don't have to rely on feelings.

Because I think we do live in a world of culture. We're so much of the division that we face is because we want to put our faith and trust more in our feelings that we do in his word. So that's some as kind of The Plea of the restoration movement, right? Hopefully getting back into scripture. Let's look at what scripture says because it gives us everything that we need. So hopefully it will go throughout this course will find it beneficial.