What is Apologetics

Dr. Robert Morey gives the Biblical Definition for Defending the Christian Faith

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[umbraemilitos]

I hope you will make more videos.

[FaithDefenders2008]

@umbraemilitos  God willing, I will be making more in Sep. If you have any topics and questions, send the to me.

[umbraemilitos]

@FaithDefenders2008 I've asked you about Bible contradictions before, and I will be looking up the Archer book, but I would like to see you make a video on why people so easily find these "contradictions" and what the most important misunderstandings of scripture reading are that lead to the claim of "contradictions."

[FaithDefenders2008]

@umbraemilitos Amazon.com has his book

[umbraemilitos]

How do we defend against the notions of contradictions throughout the Bible?

i.e.

Jesus' Geneology in Matthew 1, Luke 3, and Genesis?

Different stories of the discovery of the Tomb of Jesus in the Gospels?

Do you believe we should denounce scientific ideas for Biblical literalism?

Thank you for your time,

God Bless

[FaithDefenders2008]

@umbraemilitos Gleason Archer, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties. Get the book. Apparent contradictions are usually the result of ignorance of ancient Jewish ways of writing, failure to observe the context, logical fallacies, etc. In 40 years, I have not one real contradiction.

[Enoch2]

Jesus isn't boring!

Jesus has earned for us the right to become children of God, who grow up into our Father's feelings! Therefore "I don't care" is never the right response.

I know this because before He saved me, "I don't care" was my famous attitude and apology. It's the sign of an attempt to interpose high walls between oneself and others, when really, all believers are one body.

[hebba112]

I'm REALLY glad that this ministry is finally putting out videos.!! =)

[stealthgerm]

what was objective about murder of the first born of egyptians?

[FaithDefenders2008]

@umbraemilitos

G. Machen book on the Virgin Birth of Jesus is the classic solution to the geneological confusion. People today do not know or understand how Jews kept genelogies in the first century. Both Mathew and Luke followed the normal Jewish forms for geneologies of ther day, memory devices, etc.

[umbraemilitos]

@FaithDefenders2008

Thank you for your response; I will look for those resources. My concern about the genealogy mostly stems from the Christmas season, where challenges to Jesus' birth are often made. Is this apparent discrepancy a result of cultural misunderstanding rather than the proper data being "lost" in translation?

Thank you again for your time,

God Bless

[FaithDefenders2008]

I answer them in The Encyclopdia of Practical Christianity and The New Atheism. 99% of the "contradictions" are the result of reading back into ancient Jewish literature modern Western Gentile ideas. "Grammar" is a good example. The idea that languages have "rules" of grammar is a modern idea unknown in ancient times. Thus when someone points out "gramatical errors" in the Bible they are only showing their ignorance. Gleason Archer's book, Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, is the best book.