Its also important to note that Greek was the universal language of the first century. Greek was widely spoken and understood in various regions, including the Eastern Mediterranean where the events of Jesus life took place. Which means it would make sense that the Gospels would be written in Greek to reach a broader audience and have a wider impact.
@@davidm4566 you are correct..... To add in greek there is no "J"....so was originally translated to greek as " iessus"(or something to this effect)... Yeshuah would actully be more close to our current name Joshua.....but may have been written differently to avoid confusion
If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is an eyewitness to Jesus Christ, why did they differ on their post-crucifixion statements? (at the tomb) - Matthew 28:1-2 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw _AN ANGEL_ going to the tomb. - Mark 16:1-5 Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome saw _A YOUNG MAN_ at the tomb. - Luke 24:4,10 Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them saw _TWO MEN_ at the tomb. - John 20:11-12 Mary Magdalene saw _TWO ANGELS_ at the tomb.
@efootballmania thank you for your question. In these passages, what appears to be a contradiction is actually a complementary information. Notice the location of the angels. One is outside sitting on the rock, the other two are inside one at where the head of the body of our Saviour had lain and the other at the feet, the head is most likely the right side of the sepulchre and the young man clothed in white is the angel that was where the had had lain which is the same angel that is mentioned as being on the right side. So two angels were inside of the sepulchre and one was outside sitting on the rock. Therefore, there three angels at the sepulchre.
@@Justatreecutter Let me help you with that. 1. Is it a man or an angel? One or two? Which one? 2. Is it two persons saw an angel or three persons saw a young man or more than three persons saw two men or one person saw two angels? Which one?
Greek was the lingua franca of the land at that time. The Hebrews were greatly Hellenised, due to the prior conquests of Alexander the Great. Under Roman occupation, Greek would likely also be a common language that was used to communicate among the nations; after all, Roman civilization was a continuation of Greek - especially in the East, which later on became the Greek Byzantine empire. Finally, Jesus Himself would frequently quote the Septuagint, which is the Greek translation of the Old Testament. The New Testament was written in Koine Greek, the language used by the common people, so it was accessible to all.
If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is an eyewitness to Jesus Christ, why did they differ on their post-crucifixion statements? (at the tomb) - Matthew 28:1-2 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw _AN ANGEL_ going to the tomb. - Mark 16:1-5 Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome saw _A YOUNG MAN_ at the tomb. - Luke 24:4,10 Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them saw _TWO MEN_ at the tomb. - John 20:11-12 Mary Magdalene saw _TWO ANGELS_ at the tomb.
@eFootball Mania Why do eyewitnesses of crimes have differing accounts of the same mere minutes or hours after the event? If the Gospels were written, at the earliest, a few years after witnessing the initial events then you should expect inconsistencies.
@@lanesmith1465 Let me help you with that. 1. Is it a man or an angel? One or two? Which one? 2. Is it two persons saw an angel or three persons saw a young man or more than three persons saw two men or one person saw two angels? Which one?
The Gospel of Jesus was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them Friday 13th.
@@efootballmania 1. Angels can take on the form of man and did all the time in the old testament. Genesis 18:1-6. 2. Both. Because what you seem to forget is the fact that all of the apostles were not there at the same exact time. 2 people might of been there first and a 3rd person showed up shortly after.
Being a professional tax collector for the Roman empire meant he was fluent in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek. Aramaic was there common spoken language of Judea. Latin was the language of Rome, and Greek was the most common and prolific language in the entire world at the time. Matthew's job was to collect taxes from everyone.
@@holtscustomcreationsnot really the way roman empire work is based on location. Each location has it one mini elite that are sent to control that particular land by Rome. Those who control that particular land had their own tax collector. That mean he understood Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew. I'm sure he understood Greek and Hebrew cant say the same about Aramaic tho. Latin is less luckily since it was only spoken in west part of roman empire and roman elite
@@A.D.540 Hebrew would have been considered an antiquated at language and reserved only for the scribes. Aramaic and Greek where the two most common languages in Judea at the time the gospels were written (between 50 and 70 ad, possibly as late as 150 ad) The Septuagint would have been in circulation at the time, and it was printed in Greek. The oldest copies of the Septuagint date to the first and second century ad.
Exactly he had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be an ancient tax collector. The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't. I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict. Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers. Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word. Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Also this atheist guy forgets that The Apostles and Disciples could speak in tongues after Pentecost when The Holy Spirit descended upon them allowing them to speak other languages they didn't naturally know. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't. I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict. Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers. Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word. Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Also this atheist guy forgets that The Apostles and Disciples could speak in tongues after Pentecost when The Holy Spirit descended upon them allowing them to speak other languages they didn't naturally know. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't. I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict. Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers. Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word. Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is an eyewitness to Jesus Christ, why did they differ on their post-crucifixion statements? (at the tomb) - Matthew 28:1-2 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw _AN ANGEL_ going to the tomb. - Mark 16:1-5 Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome saw _A YOUNG MAN_ at the tomb. - Luke 24:4,10 Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them saw _TWO MEN_ at the tomb. - John 20:11-12 Mary Magdalene saw _TWO ANGELS_ at the tomb.
- The Gospel of Jesus was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them Friday 13th.
Especially when he identifies himself as one of the twelve, and there's not a "John the Elder" among them. Not that John the Elder couldn't be what John the Apostle and son of Zebedee calls himself, if he's writing as late as tradition holds - he'd be pretty darn elderly by the reign of Dominican.
Also let's not forget that since God is sovereign and powerful enough, He literally can give the gifts of speaking another human language to someone who has never spoken it. Even through different languages, He's still at work in order to spread the good news in the best way.
@@migzy4704 exactly, the God we believe is the same who separated languages between man on the tower of babel. The same God also operates in the languages He intended to create
If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is an eyewitness to Jesus Christ, why did they differ on their post-crucifixion statements? (at the tomb) - Matthew 28:1-2 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw _AN ANGEL_ going to the tomb. - Mark 16:1-5 Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome saw _A YOUNG MAN_ at the tomb. - Luke 24:4,10 Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them saw _TWO MEN_ at the tomb. - John 20:11-12 Mary Magdalene saw _TWO ANGELS_ at the tomb.
@@efootballmania because they were not collaborators and wrote their statements independently. As a matter of fact, if their statements were identical, a modern day lawyer could have thier testimonies thrown out of court because they obviously collaborated. If you study court law, you will see that witnesses always describe the same situation slightly differently. If you use your imagination just a little bit, you can see a scenario where all of those things are true. As a matter of fact, this has been done many times. Atheists always want to act like they're the first one to make up an argument, but it is all been refuted previously and it's very easy to find online. I pray that you do
The modernist bias is hilarious. These dudes can't remember their moms' phone numbers, but sure folks from largely oral societies who spent a lifetime sharing stories surely wouldn't be able to remember the defining moments of their life. Especially after spending decades telling people about it!!😂 (Not arguing with the likelihood of there being lost drafts, either, but still)
@@youknowitstrue3826lmao this dude can't into philosophy? is the trinity so hard to grasp? the Father who created everything the Son who is the Word/Logos. Begotten, not created. From the same nature of the Father who created everything. Distinct, but not separate. The Holy Spirit, the giver of Life, the one who spoke through the prophets. Three aspects/masks (persona in Latin). They can be in several places at once because God is infinite in all His attributes, if He couldn't be in all places then He wouldn't be All-Powerful! Yet, He is expressed in either of these _tria personae_ (three masks)
@@youknowitstrue3826 The Qur'an makes mention of the Father as Allah, and of the Holy Spirit ("spirit of Allah"). The Muslims that believe the Qur'an is eternal would inadvertently approve of the existence of the Eternal Word... also known as the Son Yessir, there are Trinitarian Muslims and they don't even know it lmao
Peter, Andrew, James the Greater, and John were fishermen in the region of Galilee during the Roman Empire. Jude, James the less, and Jesus were carpenters in Galilee during the Roman Empire. Matthew also called Levi was a tax collector a government employee. all of these jobs required one to know Greek. The trade language of the Roman Empire was Greek. If you didnt know Greek you couldn't be a tradesman. Furthermore, early church documents and the archeological discovery of Peter's hime indicate that he and Andrew came from VERY wealthy family. Wealthy enough to educate their children in the common languages of the day. Knowing Greek among Jews in Jesus' day was actually very common as the Ptolemys had seventy Rabbis translate their scriptures into Greek allowing for Jews to adhere to the Torah and Prophets without knowing Hebrew. Seriously this is like saying Latinos in the USA can't speak English because their native language is Spanish.
The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Also this atheist guy forgets that The Apostles and Disciples could speak in tongues after Pentecost when The Holy Spirit descended upon them allowing them to speak other languages they didn't naturally know. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't. I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict. Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers. Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word. Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is an eyewitness to Jesus Christ, why did they differ on their post-crucifixion statements? (at the tomb) - Matthew 28:1-2 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw _AN ANGEL_ going to the tomb. - Mark 16:1-5 Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome saw _A YOUNG MAN_ at the tomb. - Luke 24:4,10 Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them saw _TWO MEN_ at the tomb. - John 20:11-12 Mary Magdalene saw _TWO ANGELS_ at the tomb.
I love it when people challenge the biographers as being illiterate dummies. A professional doctor definitely new the common written language of the day. A Roman tax collector definitely knew how to write Greek since Greek was the common written language of the Roman empire. Mark was a professional scribe who definitely knew how to write. 😂
They try to paint a caricature that bible writers were illiterate stupid desert dwellers. It's a constant narrative of mockery masking an inner hate of Christianity. The purpose is to make Christians feel ashamed of taking the bible seriously.
And dont forget the Spirit Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Also this atheist guy forgets that The Apostles and Disciples could speak in tongues after Pentecost when The Holy Spirit descended upon them allowing them to speak other languages they didn't naturally know. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't. I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict. Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers. Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word. Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
Saying the apostles didn't know Koine Greek because of their supposed lack of education is like saying that commoners in some post-Soviet states don't know Russian. Even though it might not be their native language and the proficiency of some is better than others, the overwhelming majority is still familiar with the language to some degree.
I'm not convinced of Bauckham's reading of Papias concerning John, but I do think that claiming the disciples or the authors of certain documents in the NT didn't know Greek is silly. Greek was the Language of Wider Communication, so it seems more likely than not to me that most of them would have had some knowledge of Greek, not to mention they could collaborate with others who did know Greek.
Likewise. Papias is the only person to attribute the Gospel of John to John the Elder, and that's a maybe. Everyone else said, "yeah that's definitely the Beloved Disciple who wrote that."
@@maxalaintwo3578 Agreed. “Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.” ~John 21:20-25 This passage explicitly says that 1) the John that wrote this is a disciple, and 2) it’s the disciple whom Jesus loved which leaned on His breast at supper and said “Lord, which is he that betrays you?”
Yeah this guy is wrong here. He is often right and he loves Jesus so i have forgiveness for him. But he is confidently wrong on many videos. The best explaination is the one the Bible gave. Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
@@jacobcollins2861 in response to the skeptic IP is addressing, using the Bible to prove they were supernaturally gifted with languages won't convince someone who doesn't believe the Bible anyway. You have to meet them on common axiomatic grounds or else you're just begging the question.
@@jacobcollins2861 Don’t you think it’s a bit of a stretch to say that non-Greek speakers wrote entire works in a foreign language that they don’t know because people spoke other languages on Pentecost? I’m not saying it’s not possible at all, but it seems like a rather contrived explanation without more support for the idea than just that
This seems to be a very American objection, coming from a culture where it's not normal to know multiple languages. It doesn't take an extensive education to know more than one language. Common case of reading yourself into the text.
I wonder if people tie it into their idea of what it means to be illiterate. Beside the fact that we can't be certain how many of them were literate (Jesus, for one, is recorded in the Gospels as reading from Isaiah), people seem to think something like, "illiterate = stupid; therefore, monolingual." Which, of course, is silly. Or maybe they think that because some Aramaic speech is preserved in the Gospels that that means that is the ONLY language they knew.
The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Also this atheist guy forgets that The Apostles and Disciples could speak in tongues after Pentecost when The Holy Spirit descended upon them allowing them to speak other languages they didn't naturally know. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't. I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict. Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers. Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word. Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant
If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is an eyewitness to Jesus Christ, why did they differ on their post-crucifixion statements? (at the tomb) - Matthew 28:1-2 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw _AN ANGEL_ going to the tomb. - Mark 16:1-5 Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome saw _A YOUNG MAN_ at the tomb. - Luke 24:4,10 Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them saw _TWO MEN_ at the tomb. - John 20:11-12 Mary Magdalene saw _TWO ANGELS_ at the tomb.
@@efootballmania Well, first keep in mind that none of the authors of the Gospels were eyewitnesses to the discovery of the empty tomb by the women. They were told the story by the women. But this case in particular is easy to harmonize. There were two angels appearing as young men, and Mark and Matthew focused on the one who spoke to the women.
@@efootballmania Also, Mark and Luke were not themselves eyewitnesses but based on the Gospels on eyewitnesses accounts. And I think it is fine to say that Matthew and John included some things that they themselves were not direct eyewitnesses to. The claim is not that all four Gospel authors were eyewitnesses to every event in the Gospels but rather that their Gospels are based on eyewitness accounts, either their own or eyewitnesses they heard from or read.
If John the Apostle's not the author of his Gospel, then there's no consistency with the rest of the Gospels. John son of Zebedee was in Jesus's inner circle with Peter, and James in the Synoptics. In John, the beloved disciple always tags along with Peter. The Gospels record that Jesus ate His last supper with the Twelve so it's limited to these three chiefs. Peter's identified by name so it's either James or John. James died way too early to write the Gospel of John.
Yeah, the Gospel of John definitely has the Apostle John's testimony as a core component. So it would either need to be written by him or someone who closely knew him.
-The Gospel was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them Friday 13th.
@@jamesajiduah2001 there isn't a switch There are two disciples whom Jesus loved. One male and one female. Lazarus and Mary Magdalene. The disciple at the cross is Mary Magdalene. All other places it's Lazarus
@@termination9353 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. John 19:25-27 KJV Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about.
In Matthew 4:25, people from the Decapolis, a predominantly Greek speaking region, followed Jesus. Dr. Peter Williams says this is internal evidence that Jesus likely spoke Greek. This and along with Jesus’s conversation with Pontius Pilate were also in the lingua francua which would have been Greek. Even the charge of Jesus was in 3 languages showing Jerusalem was filled with people who spoke said languages.
It's also important to remember that the average person in the ancient world was illiterate, meaning it would have made far more sense for the apostles to focus on spreading the faith orally. Hence, why they may have waited to write the gospels down. It's also also important to remember that they didn't have the internet or the printing press back then, meaning that even once they did write them down, they would only have that single copy, and any subsequent copies would have to be made by hand, which wasn't a quick endeavor. Which once again shows why they greatly prioritized oral preaching. Tradition tells us that John didn't even want to write a gospel, and had to be pushed into doing it, which shows how much they valued oral tradition over written.
If the holy spirit could give the apostles the ability to speak in other languages, why couldn't the spirit give them the ability to write in other languages?
Love your response and will definitely look for those books! I'm pretty sure the disciples knew Greek as it would have been widely used and the more you hear or read a language, the more you understand... I live in South Africa, the province I live in is Afrikaans speaking mainly. I learnt the language first by hearing it, then reading it and then speaking it
Also wasn't it not Greek but koine Greek? Kind of like a simplified common version of it so that it was more easily accessible to those that didn't have Greek as a primary language?
Koine is Greek, the common Greek of the time. It is just that Greek is a language that has been around a long time, and has had some evolution. When I was first learning ancient Greek, I started with Attic Greek, a few centuries older, and really not terribly different than Koine. Even modern Greek, some two thousand years later has a lot of commonality with the ancient forms of the language... _much_ more than the "English" of Beowulf, compared to today's English. The guy IP is responding to is silly. The reason Jesus' name and title, 'king of the Jews' was written in three languages above his head (Latin, Greek, and Hebrew) is because these were some of the most common languages in the region.
I used to have this same dumb argument when I was an apostate (not a foolish apostate anymore) that ‘well if the gospel account are eyewitness testimonies why did it take so long to write them down?’ According to researchers of publishing in Antiquity like Sarah Bond, the best I can explain why the eyewitnesses of the Gospel events didn’t write it down immediately wasn’t due to learning a language, or because they were uneducated, but a little thing called pricing. Let’s just use a hypothetical: Mark: “Hey I need some supplies to write a book for my master.” Seller: “Ok like what?” Mark: “Well I need 128 pages of papyrus each 12inches square.” Seller: “Great, that’ll be 85717 Denari (3744 USD).” Mark: “Alright, let me just pull out my coin bag….. WHAT?” Seller: “Well yeah, do you know how hard it is to make paper?” Mark: “I only have 50 denarii, that’s my master’s budget, and I still need to get ink.” Seller:“Ok, here’s one 12inch square page.” Mark: “THAT’S HOW MUCH YOU CAN GIVE ME?” Seller: “Look pal, I’m just the salesman, I still need to make a profit on top of paying the papyrus craftsmen.” Mark: “Do you at least have some charcoal, I’ll just make the ink myself.” Seller: “Fine, but I’m losing a profit here.”
Yes, but these comments leans on their own understandings which is why they're confused. They're trying to be wise in their own eyes, disannuling God's power in tongues. Job 32:9 (KJV) Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. Job 40:8 (KJV) Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
@@Bryle_ They're trying to make sense of things in a way that align with demonstrable reality rather than invoking literal magic. Because nowadays even conservative apologists understand on some level that magic is an embarrassing ad-hoc non-explanation with a historical record of all losses and no wins against other explanations. So cut them some slack and stop smugly looking down on them for trying to use their God-given brains.
This is typical of the English speaking world, we think it's odd to know more than one language. No, if you know the lingua franca, then you don't need to know another. Go ahead, find me a Dutch person who can't speak English! If you life in an Empire that uses X as a lingua franca, then you'll likely learn it. They still teach everyone English as a second language in Iraq from the times of the British occupation! All the engineering tests in that country are done exclusively in English!
I heard there was a Greek version of the Old Testament for OT Jews that was made under Greek rule since some Jews never learned Hebrew but grew up speaking Greek, not to mention Greek was a highly widespread language at that time
You should look into semitic polysemy, as there seem to be a few examples found in the New Testament Peshitta (i.e. the Aramaic/Syriac text). One can argue that the Peshitta actually comes directly from the Q source text (or is even possibly a formalized version of said text), since it helps explain alternate renderings in the Byzantine and Alexandrian Greek manuscripts for the following examples: Matthew 11:19 - children/works 1 Corinthians 13:3 - burn/boast Romans 8:24 - hope/wait Philippians 1:8 - bowels/love
I would think if you were a fisherman you would have to know how to write things down to keep track of your business. I think there were probably more people that knew how to read and write, maybe not as well as we can but I still think there were more people who could read and write that we actually know
I personally hold the theory that the Early Church preserved the details of Jesus’ life via oral tradition. Most of them were Jews native to Israel, so the traditions originally existed in Aramaic. When the Church began to spread across the Empire, a few of Jesus’ disciples had the traditions written down in Hebrew (according to Papias) and Greek. These are the 4 Gospel accounts we have in the Bible today. Most, if not all, of the details of Jesus’ life and teachings correspond incredibly well with material in the Old Testament (besides being fulfilments of OT prophecies), which is why Peter and Paul were able to use the OT to explain the Gospel to almost every Jew they met. Translating them into Greek became important a little later because of how fast the Christian faith was spreading across the Roman Empire, and they needed a written record of events so that there could be a definite record for future generations to refer to and study. This explains how the Gospel was written in Greek and why it’s generally believed that they were written a little too late by our measures.
I don't understand the argument. Greek is the trade language. They would have most likely been bi/trilingual minimum, the same way many people speak at least one of English or French in addition to their own language because they are common trade languages
I wonder why IP doesn't bring up the "Greek lingua franca" argument. Does he not believe it's a strong argument? The most recent form of this argument that I read is Jonathan McLatchie's (well, at least with regard to Jesus but most of the same should apply to the gospel authors as well) and I believe he presents it compellingly.
In another short I just watched of yours, you said that John the beloved disciple claims to be an eyewitness, thus it sounds like you attribute John the son of Zebedee, who is the beloved disciple, to be the author of John. Can you explain how this matches up with what you said about John the Elder possibly being the author?
It is. Don't trust every theory he adheres to. It is solid and subscribed by almost every theologian today that is was John the apostle, and there are internal and external evidence for it.
Same here dude. I thought maybe John The Apostle wrote Revelation not The Gospel of John I don't know only God at this point until biblical archeology catches up with Time. The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Also this atheist guy forgets that The Apostles and Disciples could speak in tongues after Pentecost when The Holy Spirit descended upon them allowing them to speak other languages they didn't naturally know. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't. I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict. Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers. Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word. Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
It is written by apostle John, who esle would be? They trying hard to reason out and rely on their own understanding whixh makes them confused. Psalms 40:4 (KJV) Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Job 12:20 (KJV) He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged. Job 32:9 (KJV) Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. Proverbs 3:5-7 (KJV) Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. But here in this comment sections. You can see the vain imaginations of humanity. They glorify God but denied the power of God.
Kirk is a Scottish and former Northern English word meaning "church". The word "church" is found in the Anglo Saxon root word "Circe", a minor goddess of magic and sometimes a witch/enchantress. She was the daughter of the Sun God worshipped as "Christos Helios". She entranced her victims and led them in her house(church)and transformed them into animals and devoured them.
I grew up in the Netherlands, and by the time I was 8 without any education beyond some dos games now and then and videogames I was well versed in English both reading and writing. By the time I was 13 I was fluent in both reading and writing. And I am a big dummy, so to assume a tax collecter would not have been smart enough to be literate in the lingua franca is just goofy.
Yes, it is the gift of the Holy Spirit. These comments are denying the power of God through tongues, making themselves confused. They know God but denying God's power so they can be right in their own eyes. Foolish people are leaning on their own understandings, professing to be wise but vainly become a fool.
might I add that at the time, Greek (and roman) were like today's English. Powerful and influencing countries ' languages are spoken across their territory
All Jewish men had to know Hebrew for the Temple. (Jesus was a poor carpenter, but read aloud from Scripture in Hebrew in the Temple). The Gospels could not be written in Hebrew or Latin because the Christians were being persecuted by the Jews and Romans. Aramaic was a commonly spoken language but it was not a uniformly written language, having many varied dialects and inconsistent spelling, grammar, etc; it was basically a primitive precursor to Arabic, and Arabic today has many dozens of dialects. Koine Greek, however, was a common form of Greek spoken and written by many, particularly those who already knew Hebrew and/or Latin, and it was also a uniformly scholarly language. So, Greek it is. This also made it easier to witness to the gentiles in many parts of the wider region. I love how people who scoff at various elements of our faith act as though God couldn't have figured out whatever He wanted to figure out, lol. The creator of the universe would obviously have no trouble sorting out who would write what down, and in what language.
Looking at it even from a stance of Aramaic or Hebrew primacy (believing that Greek was not as widespread in Judea as once thought and in Aramaic or Hebrew gospels), you have to admit that knowledge of Greek ultimately would have been required for some of the missions that the apostles or immediate descendants took on. One website asked a question of how the unlearned apostles could write in perfect Greek. There are a few solutions: Greek-speaking scribes and interpreters (Even Jeremiah had a personal scribe by his side, Baruch, and they both knew Hebrew), they learned the language through experience (Peter could’ve learned it from Cornelius or another gentile he spoke to), or Greek believers translated any original writings from one language to another almost immediately after they were written, which is why the oldest New Testament fragments are still in Greek. Discounting the Greek entirely would also meaning discounting the Septuagint, which while not perfect was still compiled by Jews prior to the Messiah. These and the fact that in Acts, the Holy Spirit allows the disciples to speak AND believers of different backgrounds to understand the message in their own languages.
It's very common in other parts of the world and throughout history to speak multiple languages. Greek, Latin, and aramaic would've been very common in the area for quite a while at that point. Also, when it comes to history. It's almost impossible to prove anything 100%. Archaeological evidence and written evidence is the only way we know that anything actually happened. That and oral traditions.
I think its funny that people think it's implausible that the apostles knew more than one language when it isn't uncommon for destitude people in many African countries today to speak four langauges.
Scholars point out that John chapter 1 and word "logos" reveals the author was fully aware of Greek concepts and was well crafted to appeal to that sensibility. Also, the author had to have been fully aware of ancient Greek concepts since by the turn of the millennium BC/AD, the word logos had since been reduced to little more than a noun that wouldn't have portrayed Jesus very well. The author was appealing to the ancient philosophical concept of logos which is an indication he was educated.
Do not forget the miracle in Acts 2:4-13. Jews from all over the world traveled to jeruselum for pentacost. There, the holy spirit allowed them to speak to eachother in a language they did not previosly know. Verse 7 & 8 Verse 9, 10, 11 show the countries and locations. Pretty sure they were all speaking all the languages of the area to spread the Gospel. Similar to Europeans today speaking many tongues.
Yes. Most of these comments here are vain, having know God but denying its power. Relying on their own egos and understanding. Professing to be wise they become an utter fool.
John the apostle lived until the end of the first century, so he had enough time to learn some Greek. Plus, he was hanging around Matthew who already knew Greek.
I only hear this objection from native English speakers, which is ironic, since English is the lingua franca of the modern world, like Greek was for the Ancient (Eastern) Mediterranean world. The fact that I (a non-native English speaker) can communicate this with you, the reader, in comprehensible English disproves this entire argument. Even more so when the ancient historical context of multilingualism is taken into account.
Of course the Disciples knew Greek; otherwise they wouldn't have been able to write New Testament books in the language. Some people might object that Greek was the language of the elite in those days, but that's only true of classical Greek. Common Greek (or Koine Greek), the Greek dialect that the NT was written in, was widely known among the common people throughout the Roman Empire (thanks in part to the Romans' preservation of Greek culture), so it's entirely plausible for both Jesus and the Disciples to have used it on at least some occasions. And the fact that Jesus' brothers James and Jude both wrote NT letters in Koine Greek also strongly suggests that Jesus sometimes spoke it as well.
If John the Elder is not John son Zebedee, then how is it that within the Gospel, in the closing chapter, the book is attributed to a disciple of Jesus? How is that in the Johanine letters, the author claims to have seen and touched Jesus? I agree with you on the education thing though.
Harvard journal of theology, I wanna say 1990(?) somewhere around there, shows that most of the Jewish ossuary boxes in Jerusalem from the time of Christ were in Greek, showing Greek truly was the conman language of the day. It wasn’t Hebrew, which you might expect in church a religious context for Jews in Jerusalem, or even Aramaic… but no, they were Greek. That’s the common basic language. They would have to know Greek to survive. There are plenty of records where Roman building projects used all the builders/carpenters in Nazareth. That would include Joseph and Jesus growing up. There’s no way Jesus didn’t know Greek.
Guys who is John the Elder? How is he connected to the Lord Jesus? I'm trying to do a research on him but the only thing thats showing up is the Apostle John. You guys have recommendendations of where i could read him? Thank you very much guys God bless
Even if they didn't know the Greek language, they could have used scribes. For example, some church traditions says Mark was writing down the narrations of Peter which formed the Gospel of Mark
Greek was the Lingua Franca of the area and the Levant had been Hellenized for centuries by the time of the 1st century AD. One of the reasons of the Maccabean revolt was due to the Hellenization of the Jewish elite. It is more likely people in Judea knew enough Greek to communicate and were in contact with Jewish diaspora (ie Alexandria) where Greek and not Aramaic was their first language. Given this, it is plausible writing the gospels in Greek would cast the widest net of communicating the message of Christ.
The lingua franca of today is English and even in our country with 11 official languages, we communicate in English. The mistake we make is to think that Greek was too difficult for certain members of that society. We measure it according to our own perception of Greek( most of it is Greek to me😂). But a person exposed so much to a language as the people in the Roman Empire were would certainly have an understanding of Greek.
The Greek language was the common tongue in ancient Israel from the 3rd century BCE up until the diaspora. All evidence points to Hebrew being the religious language, Aramaic used sporadically, and Greek as the common language and Greek is almost all you find in written documents in Judea and Samaria throughout this entire period of history
Why would you assume people living in the first century "definitely didn't know Greek"? Greek was the trade language of the world at that time. This argument would be like us taking a random group of Spaniards and saying, "Well, we don't know their education level, but they certainly don't know English."
Imagine grabbing any book from Europe, written in English and saying, well it couldn't be written by any European since italians speak italian, the french speak french, etc etc... The amount of travel and commerce that was done required speaking multiple languages. People spoke multiple languages, much more and better than today's average American. It is hard for modern American atheists, because they can't comprehend that people from older times were smarter and spoke multiple languages and not just 1... Heck, most California born americans don't even bother learning spanish, to be able to interact with the second largest population in cali... (Sorry for picking on you USA, but in the rest of the world it is average for someone to speak 2 or 3 languages... and above average but still common to speak 4,5,6 languages, excluding dialects... and only above that you are considered "special".)
Its also important to note that Greek was the universal language of the first century. Greek was widely spoken and understood in various regions, including the Eastern Mediterranean where the events of Jesus life took place. Which means it would make sense that the Gospels would be written in Greek to reach a broader audience and have a wider impact.
I think that the name Jesus was even the greek form of Yeshua, the Hebrew version of the name, implying that Greek was common.
@@davidm4566 you are correct.....
To add in greek there is no "J"....so was originally translated to greek as " iessus"(or something to this effect)...
Yeshuah would actully be more close to our current name Joshua.....but may have been written differently to avoid confusion
If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is an eyewitness to Jesus Christ, why did they differ on their post-crucifixion statements? (at the tomb)
- Matthew 28:1-2
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw _AN ANGEL_ going to the tomb.
- Mark 16:1-5
Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome saw _A YOUNG MAN_ at the tomb.
- Luke 24:4,10
Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them saw _TWO MEN_ at the tomb.
- John 20:11-12
Mary Magdalene saw _TWO ANGELS_ at the tomb.
@efootballmania thank you for your question. In these passages, what appears to be a contradiction is actually a complementary information. Notice the location of the angels. One is outside sitting on the rock, the other two are inside one at where the head of the body of our Saviour had lain and the other at the feet, the head is most likely the right side of the sepulchre and the young man clothed in white is the angel that was where the had had lain which is the same angel that is mentioned as being on the right side.
So two angels were inside of the sepulchre and one was outside sitting on the rock.
Therefore, there three angels at the sepulchre.
@@Justatreecutter
Let me help you with that.
1. Is it a man or an angel? One or two? Which one?
2. Is it two persons saw an angel or three persons saw a young man or more than three persons saw two men or one person saw two angels? Which one?
Greek was the lingua franca of the land at that time. The Hebrews were greatly Hellenised, due to the prior conquests of Alexander the Great. Under Roman occupation, Greek would likely also be a common language that was used to communicate among the nations; after all, Roman civilization was a continuation of Greek - especially in the East, which later on became the Greek Byzantine empire. Finally, Jesus Himself would frequently quote the Septuagint, which is the Greek translation of the Old Testament. The New Testament was written in Koine Greek, the language used by the common people, so it was accessible to all.
If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is an eyewitness to Jesus Christ, why did they differ on their post-crucifixion statements? (at the tomb)
- Matthew 28:1-2
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw _AN ANGEL_ going to the tomb.
- Mark 16:1-5
Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome saw _A YOUNG MAN_ at the tomb.
- Luke 24:4,10
Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them saw _TWO MEN_ at the tomb.
- John 20:11-12
Mary Magdalene saw _TWO ANGELS_ at the tomb.
@eFootball Mania Why do eyewitnesses of crimes have differing accounts of the same mere minutes or hours after the event?
If the Gospels were written, at the earliest, a few years after witnessing the initial events then you should expect inconsistencies.
@@lanesmith1465
Let me help you with that.
1. Is it a man or an angel? One or two? Which one?
2. Is it two persons saw an angel or three persons saw a young man or more than three persons saw two men or one person saw two angels? Which one?
The Gospel of Jesus was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them Friday 13th.
@@efootballmania 1. Angels can take on the form of man and did all the time in the old testament. Genesis 18:1-6.
2. Both. Because what you seem to forget is the fact that all of the apostles were not there at the same exact time. 2 people might of been there first and a 3rd person showed up shortly after.
Herod declared Greek as national language but Hebrew was the religious language and Aramaic spoken language.
I agree. Matthew being a tax collector was fluent in Greek and or Latin.
Being a professional tax collector for the Roman empire meant he was fluent in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek. Aramaic was there common spoken language of Judea. Latin was the language of Rome, and Greek was the most common and prolific language in the entire world at the time.
Matthew's job was to collect taxes from everyone.
@@holtscustomcreationsnot really the way roman empire work is based on location.
Each location has it one mini elite that are sent to control that particular land by Rome. Those who control that particular land had their own tax collector. That mean he understood Greek, Aramaic and Hebrew. I'm sure he understood Greek and Hebrew cant say the same about Aramaic tho. Latin is less luckily since it was only spoken in west part of roman empire and roman elite
@@A.D.540
Hebrew would have been considered an antiquated at language and reserved only for the scribes.
Aramaic and Greek where the two most common languages in Judea at the time the gospels were written (between 50 and 70 ad, possibly as late as 150 ad)
The Septuagint would have been in circulation at the time, and it was printed in Greek. The oldest copies of the Septuagint date to the first and second century ad.
Exactly he had to be fluent in
Latin and Greek to be an ancient tax collector. The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't.
I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict.
Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers.
Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years
ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word.
Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Also this atheist guy forgets that The Apostles and Disciples could speak in tongues after Pentecost when The Holy Spirit descended upon them allowing them to speak other languages they didn't naturally know. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't.
I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict.
Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers.
Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years
ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word.
Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
Even if they didn’t know Greek they could’ve used scribes. That’s what Paul did. Romans 16:22
My point exactly.
Some church traditions say the Gospel of Mark was actually Mark writing what Peter was narrating.
@@joshogbeide And Luke wrote his interview with Mary the mother of Jesus, his cousins and his disciples. AKA the primitive Church.
The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Also this atheist guy forgets that The Apostles and Disciples could speak in tongues after Pentecost when The Holy Spirit descended upon them allowing them to speak other languages they didn't naturally know. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't.
I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict.
Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers.
Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years
ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word.
Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is an eyewitness to Jesus Christ, why did they differ on their post-crucifixion statements? (at the tomb)
- Matthew 28:1-2
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw _AN ANGEL_ going to the tomb.
- Mark 16:1-5
Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome saw _A YOUNG MAN_ at the tomb.
- Luke 24:4,10
Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them saw _TWO MEN_ at the tomb.
- John 20:11-12
Mary Magdalene saw _TWO ANGELS_ at the tomb.
- The Gospel of Jesus was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them Friday 13th.
The only thing I disagree is that John the elder and John the apostle are separate person, but everything else is a great take.
Yeah that's a weird thing to say.
Especially when he identifies himself as one of the twelve, and there's not a "John the Elder" among them.
Not that John the Elder couldn't be what John the Apostle and son of Zebedee calls himself, if he's writing as late as tradition holds - he'd be pretty darn elderly by the reign of Dominican.
Also let's not forget that since God is sovereign and powerful enough, He literally can give the gifts of speaking another human language to someone who has never spoken it. Even through different languages, He's still at work in order to spread the good news in the best way.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Exactly! People seem to forget. I mean it's normal for non beilevers to not see how great our Lord is that he can do all these things.
@@migzy4704 exactly, the God we believe is the same who separated languages between man on the tower of babel. The same God also operates in the languages He intended to create
If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is an eyewitness to Jesus Christ, why did they differ on their post-crucifixion statements? (at the tomb)
- Matthew 28:1-2
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw _AN ANGEL_ going to the tomb.
- Mark 16:1-5
Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome saw _A YOUNG MAN_ at the tomb.
- Luke 24:4,10
Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them saw _TWO MEN_ at the tomb.
- John 20:11-12
Mary Magdalene saw _TWO ANGELS_ at the tomb.
@@efootballmania because they were not collaborators and wrote their statements independently. As a matter of fact, if their statements were identical, a modern day lawyer could have thier testimonies thrown out of court because they obviously collaborated.
If you study court law, you will see that witnesses always describe the same situation slightly differently. If you use your imagination just a little bit, you can see a scenario where all of those things are true.
As a matter of fact, this has been done many times. Atheists always want to act like they're the first one to make up an argument, but it is all been refuted previously and it's very easy to find online.
I pray that you do
The modernist bias is hilarious. These dudes can't remember their moms' phone numbers, but sure folks from largely oral societies who spent a lifetime sharing stories surely wouldn't be able to remember the defining moments of their life. Especially after spending decades telling people about it!!😂
(Not arguing with the likelihood of there being lost drafts, either, but still)
Before cell phones i could remember telephone numbers. Thats because i had to. Technology itself isnt a bad thing but it is making us more dumb lol
Let me know when you can tell one God from three, idolater.
@@youknowitstrue3826 Since 1983. It's pretty simple unless you demand the infinite God to be made in the image of finite man.
@@youknowitstrue3826lmao this dude can't into philosophy?
is the trinity so hard to grasp?
the Father who created everything
the Son who is the Word/Logos. Begotten, not created. From the same nature of the Father who created everything. Distinct, but not separate.
The Holy Spirit, the giver of Life, the one who spoke through the prophets.
Three aspects/masks (persona in Latin). They can be in several places at once because God is infinite in all His attributes, if He couldn't be in all places then He wouldn't be All-Powerful! Yet, He is expressed in either of these _tria personae_ (three masks)
@@youknowitstrue3826 The Qur'an makes mention of the Father as Allah, and of the Holy Spirit ("spirit of Allah"). The Muslims that believe the Qur'an is eternal would inadvertently approve of the existence of the Eternal Word... also known as the Son
Yessir, there are Trinitarian Muslims and they don't even know it lmao
Peter, Andrew, James the Greater, and John were fishermen in the region of Galilee during the Roman Empire.
Jude, James the less, and Jesus were carpenters in Galilee during the Roman Empire.
Matthew also called Levi was a tax collector a government employee.
all of these jobs required one to know Greek. The trade language of the Roman Empire was Greek. If you didnt know Greek you couldn't be a tradesman.
Furthermore, early church documents and the archeological discovery of Peter's hime indicate that he and Andrew came from VERY wealthy family. Wealthy enough to educate their children in the common languages of the day.
Knowing Greek among Jews in Jesus' day was actually very common as the Ptolemys had seventy Rabbis translate their scriptures into Greek allowing for Jews to adhere to the Torah and Prophets without knowing Hebrew.
Seriously this is like saying Latinos in the USA can't speak English because their native language is Spanish.
Also, scripture referred to it as Galilee of the gentiles. Of course they knew greek.
The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Also this atheist guy forgets that The Apostles and Disciples could speak in tongues after Pentecost when The Holy Spirit descended upon them allowing them to speak other languages they didn't naturally know. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't.
I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict.
Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers.
Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years
ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word.
Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
Where's the Gospel in Aramaic, native language of Jesus Christ and his people?
If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is an eyewitness to Jesus Christ, why did they differ on their post-crucifixion statements? (at the tomb)
- Matthew 28:1-2
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw _AN ANGEL_ going to the tomb.
- Mark 16:1-5
Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome saw _A YOUNG MAN_ at the tomb.
- Luke 24:4,10
Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them saw _TWO MEN_ at the tomb.
- John 20:11-12
Mary Magdalene saw _TWO ANGELS_ at the tomb.
@Cameron Clark
How do you know the Gospel translated to Greek are identical from the original Aramaic?
I love it when people challenge the biographers as being illiterate dummies. A professional doctor definitely new the common written language of the day. A Roman tax collector definitely knew how to write Greek since Greek was the common written language of the Roman empire. Mark was a professional scribe who definitely knew how to write. 😂
They try to paint a caricature that bible writers were illiterate stupid desert dwellers. It's a constant narrative of mockery masking an inner hate of Christianity.
The purpose is to make Christians feel ashamed of taking the bible seriously.
And dont forget the Spirit
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Also this atheist guy forgets that The Apostles and Disciples could speak in tongues after Pentecost when The Holy Spirit descended upon them allowing them to speak other languages they didn't naturally know. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't.
I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict.
Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers.
Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years
ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word.
Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
How much do we know about Mark and Luke?
@@mattr.1887 Luke was a doctor and editor. Mark was a professional scribe.
Saying the apostles didn't know Koine Greek because of their supposed lack of education is like saying that commoners in some post-Soviet states don't know Russian. Even though it might not be their native language and the proficiency of some is better than others, the overwhelming majority is still familiar with the language to some degree.
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Greek was the "english" of that time. It was used as an universal language, thanks to alexander the great if i am not mistaken.
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I'm not convinced of Bauckham's reading of Papias concerning John, but I do think that claiming the disciples or the authors of certain documents in the NT didn't know Greek is silly. Greek was the Language of Wider Communication, so it seems more likely than not to me that most of them would have had some knowledge of Greek, not to mention they could collaborate with others who did know Greek.
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I highly doubt that the author of John's gospel was not John the disciple.
Likewise. Papias is the only person to attribute the Gospel of John to John the Elder, and that's a maybe. Everyone else said, "yeah that's definitely the Beloved Disciple who wrote that."
@@maxalaintwo3578
Agreed.
“Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me. Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.”
~John 21:20-25
This passage explicitly says that 1) the John that wrote this is a disciple, and 2) it’s the disciple whom Jesus loved which leaned on His breast at supper and said “Lord, which is he that betrays you?”
Yeah this guy is wrong here. He is often right and he loves Jesus so i have forgiveness for him. But he is confidently wrong on many videos.
The best explaination is the one the Bible gave.
Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
@@jacobcollins2861 in response to the skeptic IP is addressing, using the Bible to prove they were supernaturally gifted with languages won't convince someone who doesn't believe the Bible anyway. You have to meet them on common axiomatic grounds or else you're just begging the question.
@@jacobcollins2861
Don’t you think it’s a bit of a stretch to say that non-Greek speakers wrote entire works in a foreign language that they don’t know because people spoke other languages on Pentecost? I’m not saying it’s not possible at all, but it seems like a rather contrived explanation without more support for the idea than just that
Not just 'trust me bro', but 'DEFINITELY trust me bro'
Much more convincing
This seems to be a very American objection, coming from a culture where it's not normal to know multiple languages. It doesn't take an extensive education to know more than one language. Common case of reading yourself into the text.
Lots of Americans are bilingual
Odd assumption to think people can't speak or write more then one language. Especially in a multilingual culture.
I wonder if people tie it into their idea of what it means to be illiterate. Beside the fact that we can't be certain how many of them were literate (Jesus, for one, is recorded in the Gospels as reading from Isaiah), people seem to think something like, "illiterate = stupid; therefore, monolingual." Which, of course, is silly. Or maybe they think that because some Aramaic speech is preserved in the Gospels that that means that is the ONLY language they knew.
The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Also this atheist guy forgets that The Apostles and Disciples could speak in tongues after Pentecost when The Holy Spirit descended upon them allowing them to speak other languages they didn't naturally know. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't.
I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict.
Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers.
Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years
ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word.
Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant
If Matthew, Mark, Luke and John is an eyewitness to Jesus Christ, why did they differ on their post-crucifixion statements? (at the tomb)
- Matthew 28:1-2
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary saw _AN ANGEL_ going to the tomb.
- Mark 16:1-5
Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Salome saw _A YOUNG MAN_ at the tomb.
- Luke 24:4,10
Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary the mother of James, and the others with them saw _TWO MEN_ at the tomb.
- John 20:11-12
Mary Magdalene saw _TWO ANGELS_ at the tomb.
@@efootballmania Well, first keep in mind that none of the authors of the Gospels were eyewitnesses to the discovery of the empty tomb by the women. They were told the story by the women.
But this case in particular is easy to harmonize. There were two angels appearing as young men, and Mark and Matthew focused on the one who spoke to the women.
@@efootballmania Also, Mark and Luke were not themselves eyewitnesses but based on the Gospels on eyewitnesses accounts. And I think it is fine to say that Matthew and John included some things that they themselves were not direct eyewitnesses to.
The claim is not that all four Gospel authors were eyewitnesses to every event in the Gospels but rather that their Gospels are based on eyewitness accounts, either their own or eyewitnesses they heard from or read.
If John the Apostle's not the author of his Gospel, then there's no consistency with the rest of the Gospels.
John son of Zebedee was in Jesus's inner circle with Peter, and James in the Synoptics. In John, the beloved disciple always tags along with Peter.
The Gospels record that Jesus ate His last supper with the Twelve so it's limited to these three chiefs. Peter's identified by name so it's either James or John. James died way too early to write the Gospel of John.
Yeah, the Gospel of John definitely has the Apostle John's testimony as a core component. So it would either need to be written by him or someone who closely knew him.
-The Gospel was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them Friday 13th.
@@termination9353 Except Lazarus is literally named in the book. Why would he switch identification like that?
@@jamesajiduah2001 there isn't a switch
There are two disciples whom Jesus loved. One male and one female. Lazarus and Mary Magdalene. The disciple at the cross is Mary Magdalene. All other places it's Lazarus
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Now there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home.
John 19:25-27 KJV
Clearly you have no idea what you're talking about.
In Matthew 4:25, people from the Decapolis, a predominantly Greek speaking region, followed Jesus. Dr. Peter Williams says this is internal evidence that Jesus likely spoke Greek. This and along with Jesus’s conversation with Pontius Pilate were also in the lingua francua which would have been Greek. Even the charge of Jesus was in 3 languages showing Jerusalem was filled with people who spoke said languages.
This was fascinating. Imma have to look at this papias guy and this logia document now.
That is like speculating that someone living in Arizona in 2023 either has to be fluent in either English or Spanish with no overlap.
I love that you gave theses books to read. I'm definitely going to start collecting them and reading them
It's also important to remember that the average person in the ancient world was illiterate, meaning it would have made far more sense for the apostles to focus on spreading the faith orally. Hence, why they may have waited to write the gospels down.
It's also also important to remember that they didn't have the internet or the printing press back then, meaning that even once they did write them down, they would only have that single copy, and any subsequent copies would have to be made by hand, which wasn't a quick endeavor. Which once again shows why they greatly prioritized oral preaching. Tradition tells us that John didn't even want to write a gospel, and had to be pushed into doing it, which shows how much they valued oral tradition over written.
If the holy spirit could give the apostles the ability to speak in other languages, why couldn't the spirit give them the ability to write in other languages?
the spirit of God gave them the story, there was no Jesus
Video on John the Elder please
Love your response and will definitely look for those books!
I'm pretty sure the disciples knew Greek as it would have been widely used and the more you hear or read a language, the more you understand...
I live in South Africa, the province I live in is Afrikaans speaking mainly. I learnt the language first by hearing it, then reading it and then speaking it
I love this new, less reviling style
When I type in Zecharia Sitchin into the UA-cam search bar a bunch of your videos pop up.
Also wasn't it not Greek but koine Greek? Kind of like a simplified common version of it so that it was more easily accessible to those that didn't have Greek as a primary language?
Koine is Greek, the common Greek of the time. It is just that Greek is a language that has been around a long time, and has had some evolution. When I was first learning ancient Greek, I started with Attic Greek, a few centuries older, and really not terribly different than Koine. Even modern Greek, some two thousand years later has a lot of commonality with the ancient forms of the language... _much_ more than the "English" of Beowulf, compared to today's English.
The guy IP is responding to is silly. The reason Jesus' name and title, 'king of the Jews' was written in three languages above his head (Latin, Greek, and Hebrew) is because these were some of the most common languages in the region.
I used to have this same dumb argument when I was an apostate (not a foolish apostate anymore) that ‘well if the gospel account are eyewitness testimonies why did it take so long to write them down?’ According to researchers of publishing in Antiquity like Sarah Bond, the best I can explain why the eyewitnesses of the Gospel events didn’t write it down immediately wasn’t due to learning a language, or because they were uneducated, but a little thing called pricing. Let’s just use a hypothetical:
Mark: “Hey I need some supplies to write a book for my master.”
Seller: “Ok like what?”
Mark: “Well I need 128 pages of papyrus each 12inches square.”
Seller: “Great, that’ll be 85717 Denari (3744 USD).”
Mark: “Alright, let me just pull out my coin bag….. WHAT?”
Seller: “Well yeah, do you know how hard it is to make paper?”
Mark: “I only have 50 denarii, that’s my master’s budget, and I still need to get ink.”
Seller:“Ok, here’s one 12inch square page.”
Mark: “THAT’S HOW MUCH YOU CAN GIVE ME?”
Seller: “Look pal, I’m just the salesman, I still need to make a profit on top of paying the papyrus craftsmen.”
Mark: “Do you at least have some charcoal, I’ll just make the ink myself.”
Seller: “Fine, but I’m losing a profit here.”
Also its well know especially for the eastern region of the Roman.Empire Greek was a commonly used language almost universal
I mean, having the Holy Spirit gave them the ability to speak in all tongues.
Yes, but these comments leans on their own understandings which is why they're confused.
They're trying to be wise in their own eyes, disannuling God's power in tongues.
Job 32:9 (KJV)
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Job 40:8 (KJV)
Wilt thou also disannul my judgment? wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous?
@@Bryle_ They're trying to make sense of things in a way that align with demonstrable reality rather than invoking literal magic. Because nowadays even conservative apologists understand on some level that magic is an embarrassing ad-hoc non-explanation with a historical record of all losses and no wins against other explanations. So cut them some slack and stop smugly looking down on them for trying to use their God-given brains.
This is typical of the English speaking world, we think it's odd to know more than one language. No, if you know the lingua franca, then you don't need to know another. Go ahead, find me a Dutch person who can't speak English!
If you life in an Empire that uses X as a lingua franca, then you'll likely learn it. They still teach everyone English as a second language in Iraq from the times of the British occupation! All the engineering tests in that country are done exclusively in English!
Even then, it clearly says in acts they learned the gift of tounges (i.e., )the Holy Spirit allowed them to understand other languages .
Andrew and Philip are Greek names nad it was quite common to find Hellenistic Jews.
Definitely, you don't need to have a good education to learn new language.... You will learn it by always hearing it....
I heard there was a Greek version of the Old Testament for OT Jews that was made under Greek rule since some Jews never learned Hebrew but grew up speaking Greek, not to mention Greek was a highly widespread language at that time
You should look into semitic polysemy, as there seem to be a few examples found in the New Testament Peshitta (i.e. the Aramaic/Syriac text). One can argue that the Peshitta actually comes directly from the Q source text (or is even possibly a formalized version of said text), since it helps explain alternate renderings in the Byzantine and Alexandrian Greek manuscripts for the following examples:
Matthew 11:19 - children/works
1 Corinthians 13:3 - burn/boast
Romans 8:24 - hope/wait
Philippians 1:8 - bowels/love
This brings into a bigger issue and topic worthy of analysis of the Book of John. Of which I'd love to hear your thoughts
I would think if you were a fisherman you would have to know how to write things down to keep track of your business. I think there were probably more people that knew how to read and write, maybe not as well as we can but I still think there were more people who could read and write that we actually know
Ha! He didn't even know one of them was a doctor. 🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
I personally hold the theory that the Early Church preserved the details of Jesus’ life via oral tradition. Most of them were Jews native to Israel, so the traditions originally existed in Aramaic. When the Church began to spread across the Empire, a few of Jesus’ disciples had the traditions written down in Hebrew (according to Papias) and Greek. These are the 4 Gospel accounts we have in the Bible today.
Most, if not all, of the details of Jesus’ life and teachings correspond incredibly well with material in the Old Testament (besides being fulfilments of OT prophecies), which is why Peter and Paul were able to use the OT to explain the Gospel to almost every Jew they met. Translating them into Greek became important a little later because of how fast the Christian faith was spreading across the Roman Empire, and they needed a written record of events so that there could be a definite record for future generations to refer to and study.
This explains how the Gospel was written in Greek and why it’s generally believed that they were written a little too late by our measures.
They were tradesmen in Galilee. Many of their most important customers would have spoken Greek. Pretty safe bet they knew Greek.
Walk by faith
"The apostles didn't have a degree in linguistics and theology bro. They didn't know what they were talking about"
"that's just speculation" proceeds to speculate wildly.
I don't understand the argument. Greek is the trade language. They would have most likely been bi/trilingual minimum, the same way many people speak at least one of English or French in addition to their own language because they are common trade languages
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I wonder why IP doesn't bring up the "Greek lingua franca" argument. Does he not believe it's a strong argument? The most recent form of this argument that I read is Jonathan McLatchie's (well, at least with regard to Jesus but most of the same should apply to the gospel authors as well) and I believe he presents it compellingly.
Israel has trade routes going in and around them, trade within the Roman Empire, etc.
In another short I just watched of yours, you said that John the beloved disciple claims to be an eyewitness, thus it sounds like you attribute John the son of Zebedee, who is the beloved disciple, to be the author of John. Can you explain how this matches up with what you said about John the Elder possibly being the author?
This it kinda shocking because I thought the Gospel of John was written by the Apostle John(I.e John the son of Zebedee)
It is. Don't trust every theory he adheres to. It is solid and subscribed by almost every theologian today that is was John the apostle, and there are internal and external evidence for it.
@@eteixeira3532 thank you
Same here dude. I thought maybe John The Apostle wrote Revelation not The Gospel of John I don't know only God at this point until biblical archeology catches up with Time. The majority of the Apostles such as Matthew, Paul, Luke and James had to be fluent in Latin and Greek to be tent makers, tax collectors, fisherman, physicians, religious leaders and working class people in ancient Judea under Roman occupation. Also this atheist guy forgets that The Apostles and Disciples could speak in tongues after Pentecost when The Holy Spirit descended upon them allowing them to speak other languages they didn't naturally know. Exactly why Scriptural context is important especially in The Old and New Testament Scriptures SOOOO YEAH 👍. I remember when Iron Chariots was a counter Apologetics site created by Matt Dillahunty back when he was considered relevant by other Atheists. SILLY ATHEISTS TRIX ARE FOR KIDS 🤣. Christianity and theism were crucial in the development of scientific understandings and phenomenon discoveries as Creation can only be studied if there is creative design not chaotic chance and nonsensical/inconsistent processes of Evolutionary biology and cosmological randomness. AMEN brother Michael Jones I really appreciate his Inspiring Philosophy Apologetics ministry. Fellow brothers and sisters in Christ our Lord and God bless you ALL. Thanks to The Lord our God for preserving His Word through the centuries in The Bible so Christians and Apologists can do Good in preaching DA GOSPEL TRUTH . Inspiring Philosophy's ministry always does good work in his efforts in the furtherance of The Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ he's reaching thousands to millions of people who are seeking after The Truth of God's Existence, Word and Character in our reality 🙏❤️👊. This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college student. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't.
I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict.
Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers.
Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years
ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of but not macro or micro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word.
Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant.
It is written by apostle John, who esle would be?
They trying hard to reason out and rely on their own understanding whixh makes them confused.
Psalms 40:4 (KJV)
Blessed is that man that maketh the LORD his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
Job 12:20 (KJV)
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
Job 32:9 (KJV)
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Proverbs 3:5-7 (KJV)
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
But here in this comment sections.
You can see the vain imaginations of humanity.
They glorify God but denied the power of God.
And once again, thank you.
Kirk is a Scottish and former Northern English word meaning "church". The word "church" is found in the Anglo Saxon root word "Circe", a minor goddess of magic and sometimes a witch/enchantress. She was the daughter of the Sun God worshipped as "Christos Helios". She entranced her victims and led them in her house(church)and transformed them into animals and devoured them.
I grew up in the Netherlands, and by the time I was 8 without any education beyond some dos games now and then and videogames I was well versed in English both reading and writing. By the time I was 13 I was fluent in both reading and writing. And I am a big dummy, so to assume a tax collecter would not have been smart enough to be literate in the lingua franca is just goofy.
Geezer's creepers!! Packs down another bud in mah Rosetta stone pipe!
this guy looks like aaron from the walking dead when he had a long beard
They literally knew every language
Wrong
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Oh , be quiet , fool .
Yes, it is the gift of the Holy Spirit.
These comments are denying the power of God through tongues, making themselves confused.
They know God but denying God's power so they can be right in their own eyes.
Foolish people are leaning on their own understandings, professing to be wise but vainly become a fool.
might I add that at the time, Greek (and roman) were like today's English. Powerful and influencing countries ' languages are spoken across their territory
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All Jewish men had to know Hebrew for the Temple. (Jesus was a poor carpenter, but read aloud from Scripture in Hebrew in the Temple). The Gospels could not be written in Hebrew or Latin because the Christians were being persecuted by the Jews and Romans. Aramaic was a commonly spoken language but it was not a uniformly written language, having many varied dialects and inconsistent spelling, grammar, etc; it was basically a primitive precursor to Arabic, and Arabic today has many dozens of dialects. Koine Greek, however, was a common form of Greek spoken and written by many, particularly those who already knew Hebrew and/or Latin, and it was also a uniformly scholarly language. So, Greek it is. This also made it easier to witness to the gentiles in many parts of the wider region.
I love how people who scoff at various elements of our faith act as though God couldn't have figured out whatever He wanted to figure out, lol. The creator of the universe would obviously have no trouble sorting out who would write what down, and in what language.
Looking at it even from a stance of Aramaic or Hebrew primacy (believing that Greek was not as widespread in Judea as once thought and in Aramaic or Hebrew gospels), you have to admit that knowledge of Greek ultimately would have been required for some of the missions that the apostles or immediate descendants took on. One website asked a question of how the unlearned apostles could write in perfect Greek.
There are a few solutions: Greek-speaking scribes and interpreters (Even Jeremiah had a personal scribe by his side, Baruch, and they both knew Hebrew), they learned the language through experience (Peter could’ve learned it from Cornelius or another gentile he spoke to), or Greek believers translated any original writings from one language to another almost immediately after they were written, which is why the oldest New Testament fragments are still in Greek. Discounting the Greek entirely would also meaning discounting the Septuagint, which while not perfect was still compiled by Jews prior to the Messiah.
These and the fact that in Acts, the Holy Spirit allows the disciples to speak AND believers of different backgrounds to understand the message in their own languages.
This "Logia" written by Matthew, could this be Q source, or a similar pre-gospel source?
It’s more common to be bi & tri lingual that it is to speak one language. That was the tongues of there day
I've heard this objection before...um, based on mimes, I suppose.
Matthew 23:9 we should not call anyone our father for our father is God and is in heaven
It's very common in other parts of the world and throughout history to speak multiple languages. Greek, Latin, and aramaic would've been very common in the area for quite a while at that point.
Also, when it comes to history. It's almost impossible to prove anything 100%. Archaeological evidence and written evidence is the only way we know that anything actually happened. That and oral traditions.
John the Elder is John the son of Zebedee
I think its funny that people think it's implausible that the apostles knew more than one language when it isn't uncommon for destitude people in many African countries today to speak four langauges.
Scholars point out that John chapter 1 and word "logos" reveals the author was fully aware of Greek concepts and was well crafted to appeal to that sensibility. Also, the author had to have been fully aware of ancient Greek concepts since by the turn of the millennium BC/AD, the word logos had since been reduced to little more than a noun that wouldn't have portrayed Jesus very well. The author was appealing to the ancient philosophical concept of logos which is an indication he was educated.
Do not forget the miracle in Acts 2:4-13.
Jews from all over the world traveled to jeruselum for pentacost.
There, the holy spirit allowed them to speak to eachother in a language they did not previosly know. Verse 7 & 8
Verse 9, 10, 11 show the countries and locations.
Pretty sure they were all speaking all the languages of the area to spread the Gospel. Similar to Europeans today speaking many tongues.
Yes.
Most of these comments here are vain, having know God but denying its power.
Relying on their own egos and understanding.
Professing to be wise they become an utter fool.
"They definitely didn't know Greek"-that's some A-level historian work there 👍
Amen❤
John the apostle lived until the end of the first century, so he had enough time to learn some Greek. Plus, he was hanging around Matthew who already knew Greek.
I believe Luke was also a gentile which would explain his knowledge of Greek.
Could you imagine being ruled by Rome and not knowing the lingua franca of Greek x) TikTok is full of mess
Glory To The Triune GOD
I only hear this objection from native English speakers, which is ironic, since English is the lingua franca of the modern world, like Greek was for the Ancient (Eastern) Mediterranean world. The fact that I (a non-native English speaker) can communicate this with you, the reader, in comprehensible English disproves this entire argument.
Even more so when the ancient historical context of multilingualism is taken into account.
Of course the Disciples knew Greek; otherwise they wouldn't have been able to write New Testament books in the language. Some people might object that Greek was the language of the elite in those days, but that's only true of classical Greek. Common Greek (or Koine Greek), the Greek dialect that the NT was written in, was widely known among the common people throughout the Roman Empire (thanks in part to the Romans' preservation of Greek culture), so it's entirely plausible for both Jesus and the Disciples to have used it on at least some occasions. And the fact that Jesus' brothers James and Jude both wrote NT letters in Koine Greek also strongly suggests that Jesus sometimes spoke it as well.
I find it kind of funny to even say that to a time and place where Greek was basically the lingua franca between all these peoples.
Brant Pitre, nice.
If John the Elder is not John son Zebedee, then how is it that within the Gospel, in the closing chapter, the book is attributed to a disciple of Jesus? How is that in the Johanine letters, the author claims to have seen and touched Jesus? I agree with you on the education thing though.
Plus the day of Pentecost when they started fluently speaking other languages because of the holy spirit
¡Gracias!
Harvard journal of theology, I wanna say 1990(?) somewhere around there, shows that most of the Jewish ossuary boxes in Jerusalem from the time of Christ were in Greek, showing Greek truly was the conman language of the day. It wasn’t Hebrew, which you might expect in church a religious context for Jews in Jerusalem, or even Aramaic… but no, they were Greek. That’s the common basic language. They would have to know Greek to survive. There are plenty of records where Roman building projects used all the builders/carpenters in Nazareth. That would include Joseph and Jesus growing up. There’s no way Jesus didn’t know Greek.
Talking about others from his own experience, as if what is true for him, must be true for others.
So john who wrote the gospel wasnt one of the apostles? Or was one of the other apostles also known as john in addition to John the son of zebedee?
interesting on john
Guys who is John the Elder? How is he connected to the Lord Jesus? I'm trying to do a research on him but the only thing thats showing up is the Apostle John. You guys have recommendendations of where i could read him? Thank you very much guys God bless
Even if they didn't know the Greek language, they could have used scribes.
For example, some church traditions says Mark was writing down the narrations of Peter which formed the Gospel of Mark
At the least they all spoke Koine Greek, which was the common language
Idk why they try when we have IP on our side lol 😂
thank you 👍
Greek was the Lingua Franca of the area and the Levant had been Hellenized for centuries by the time of the 1st century AD. One of the reasons of the Maccabean revolt was due to the Hellenization of the Jewish elite. It is more likely people in Judea knew enough Greek to communicate and were in contact with Jewish diaspora (ie Alexandria) where Greek and not Aramaic was their first language. Given this, it is plausible writing the gospels in Greek would cast the widest net of communicating the message of Christ.
The lingua franca of today is English and even in our country with 11 official languages, we communicate in English. The mistake we make is to think that Greek was too difficult for certain members of that society. We measure it according to our own perception of Greek( most of it is Greek to me😂). But a person exposed so much to a language as the people in the Roman Empire were would certainly have an understanding of Greek.
I mean it's also intresting that most of these men only ever appear in the Bible
(obviously Paul and I believe a few others are mentioned elsewhere
The Greek language was the common tongue in ancient Israel from the 3rd century BCE up until the diaspora. All evidence points to Hebrew being the religious language, Aramaic used sporadically, and Greek as the common language and Greek is almost all you find in written documents in Judea and Samaria throughout this entire period of history
Why would you assume people living in the first century "definitely didn't know Greek"? Greek was the trade language of the world at that time. This argument would be like us taking a random group of Spaniards and saying, "Well, we don't know their education level, but they certainly don't know English."
Imagine grabbing any book from Europe, written in English and saying, well it couldn't be written by any European since italians speak italian, the french speak french, etc etc...
The amount of travel and commerce that was done required speaking multiple languages. People spoke multiple languages, much more and better than today's average American. It is hard for modern American atheists, because they can't comprehend that people from older times were smarter and spoke multiple languages and not just 1...
Heck, most California born americans don't even bother learning spanish, to be able to interact with the second largest population in cali...
(Sorry for picking on you USA, but in the rest of the world it is average for someone to speak 2 or 3 languages... and above average but still common to speak 4,5,6 languages, excluding dialects... and only above that you are considered "special".)
Mark was the LATIN interpreter of Peter, in Rome specifically. Their common language was likely Greek.