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Hebrew Roots claim that most believers secretly have Jewish ancestry — Mike dismisses this as convenient and self-serving

Q&A: questioner relays that her Hebrew Roots friends claim most people have Jewish ancestry they are unaware of, which is why the law applies to them.

Hebrew Roots claim that most believers secretly have Jewish ancestry — Mike dismisses this as convenient and self-serving

John 1 Logos — what it means for Jesus to be the Word: Jesus is God's self-revelation, not the Bible itself

Community campaign on Twitter restored the channel

YouTube tweet acknowledging mistaken removal

1 Corinthians 13 "the perfect" does not refer to the completed canon — cessationism refuted

Face-to-face with God as the referent of "the perfect" in 1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 13 face-to-face language connects to the new creation

Recommended apologetics resources: websites and books

Generational curses: Mike does not believe in them as commonly taught

Ontological argument: God's existence is necessary

Mark 13:32 — Jesus not knowing the hour does not threaten his deity

Luke 2:52 — Jesus grew in wisdom, demonstrating genuine human limitations on omniscience

Acts 1 implies Jesus's limitations were lifted after resurrection and glorification

Luis de Molina and Molinism: middle knowledge reconciles divine sovereignty and human free will

1 Corinthians 11:16 head coverings: Mike does not believe it is binding today but acknowledges difficulty

Books like Job belong in the canon because Jesus accepted the Old Testament, and apostles were commissioned to teach

Papias's key quotation about seeking living witnesses over written sources

Main conclusion from Papias: eyewitness guarantors refute the telephone-game model

Bauckham's theory: named individuals are living eyewitness sources the author is appealing to

Second-century legends (Gospel of Peter) feature absurd embellishments absent from canonical Gospels

Simon of Cyrene named with his sons Alexander and Rufus as eyewitness sourcing (Mark 15:21)

Matthew and Luke drop Alexander and Rufus because their audiences may not know them (or they had died)

Charles Talbert (1977) identified the Gospels as ancient biography; Richard Burridge confirmed it

Summary conclusions: multiple lines of evidence converge against community tradition view

Q&A: Salvation of severely mentally handicapped people — accountability proportional to awareness

Q&A: Do the Gospels contradict each other? Mike's strong stance on harmonization

Q&A: How did the Gospel writers know about private conversations (Jesus and Pilate)?

Q&A: How did the disciples know what Jesus prayed in Gethsemane if he prayed alone?

Q&A: Did New Testament writers invent Gospel narratives from OT prophecies? — Refuted by extra-biblical confirmation of historical facts

How to use commentaries well: seek their reasoning, not their conclusions; read multiple commentaries.

Matthew 27: saints raised from the dead at Jesus's death — why do only Matthew mention it?

Secular and archaeological evidence for the Exodus exists but Mike cannot present it in detail; early vs. late dating debate.

Pre-trib rapture and early church fathers: Mike acknowledges not knowing the answer and references Brian Brodersen's book.

Tongues in the New Testament: multiple types — tongues with interpretation (public) and tongues without interpretation (private).

Rapture and the Third Temple: Mike believes in a future Third Temple but sees no necessary connection to pre-trib rapture timing.

1 Timothy 2:5 mediator concept underlies John 20:17 — Jesus is the one mediator between God and man.

Full preterism vs. partial preterism: full preterism claims the second coming already happened and leads to heresy.

Head coverings for women: Mike holds tentatively that they are not necessary today, but acknowledges he wants to study the passage more.

Upcoming debate with Matt Dillahunty on April 11 on the resurrection of Jesus.

Enemy attestation - Matthew 28, Justin Martyr, Tertullian acknowledge the empty tomb

Jewish practice of marking and remembering spiritual leaders' burial sites

Joseph of Arimathea - multiply attested, named, testable, criterion of embarrassment

Cameron Bertuzzi's background: photographer turned apologist after brother became an atheist; runs Capturing Christianity blog and YouTube channel

Argument from consciousness: mind and matter are ontologically distinct; consciousness is irreducible to physical processes (the hard problem of consciousness)

Humans are worse than they think they are, but Christ loves them more than they know — the paradox of the gospel

Q&A: Why doesn't God interact visibly today as in Bible times? Mike's answer: miracles were always rare; God interacts spiritually now; the Bible establishes the foundation

Questions are not arguments: unanswered questions do not constitute evidence against Christianity; they only reveal gaps in human knowledge

Q&A: Can God give humans dominion and then interfere with that dominion? Parents analogy: giving children authority does not prevent parental intervention when abused

Closing message to skeptics from John: separate psychological/emotional persuasiveness from logical validity; the gospel has explanatory power for the whole world

Boghossian redefines "faith" as "pretending to know things you don't know"

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