Dr Ben Witherington: Jesus and Women

Part 3 of CPX's interview with Dr Witherington. For more from CPX go to publicchristianity.org or www.benwitherington.com for more from Dr Witherington.

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[indianpilgrim]

Dr Witherington is right on, spot on, slam on, right, awesome and correctly dividing the word of GOD.

[19toews]

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[androcracy]

Lol! :D I'm always astonished at the shameless unflinching claims of Egalitarians! Really? Wow. What happened to using the Didactic method? The clear portions of the Bible to clarify the unclear? Pheobe was a great help to Paul? Perhaps Deaconesses are allowable, but to construe a new doctrine of women Apostles because of an unclear name (Junia) and ignore that not one of the 12 disciples was a man is bias eisegesis. Why not 6 men 6 women? Or was Jesus suddenly subject to social constraints?

[JesusSavedme78]

Dr Ben Witherington is my new hero

[MunisAwesome]

@bzagar1 And your telling me there is more evidence for the New Testament then any other history book? Unless you mean the New Testament is real then yes it is, and there is evidence for that. But is there any evidence for what happened in the new testament are real? I don't think so, or scientists wouldn't be debating on whether Jesus was real or not.

[MunisAwesome]

@bzagar1 Ok, clearly what you're saying isn't accurate. I was speaking of the story of Jesus ripping off the stories of Osiris and Horus. I never once said that the Story of Moses or the ten plagues were ripped off Egyptian Mythology. I used the word Judaic God was because that is the god the Christians believe in. And And not over exaggerated? Are they even real since there is no writing but scriptures who claim that all what would seem crazy to be real.

[bzagar1]

@MunisAwesome the good modern translations of the Bible are 99.9% accurate of what the originals said. We don't need a piece of the cross to know Jesus resurrected. Lol. The writers of the NT were eyewitnesses of Jesus, pre and post resurrection. They were in a position to know and accurately describe what he did. THe NT is the most accurate piece from history, and no where does it resemble anything Egyptian, but rather, Jewisjh since all the writers were Jews. What places in the NT are Egyptn?

[bzagar1]

@MunisAwesome The genre's the 27 books of the NT was not over-exageratted style work. They were biographies, history, not a first century style that was some made up story. They state themselves the kind of writings they are. Yes, theres more evidence for the NT than any other book in history. I just told you there are 5700 papyri manuscripts in Greek in museums, and libraries through out the world. Another 21,000 in other languages. Know what Textual Criticism is? That's how we know the

[bzagar1]

@MunisAwesome No writing is full accurate? That would include your writing, too. Therefore, your writing is not fully accurate by your own admition.

Name some "many things" that are obvious when compared to Egyptian writings. Jews have been monothiestic (one God) the whole time there has been a Jewish race. No first century Jew would've used Egyptian sources that were considered false by them, lol. The Gnostic Gospels are not Scripture. They are not Christian, and were not written by Christians.

[bzagar1]

@MunisAwesome So you're defining evidence as archaeology? There are thousands of archaeological discoveries that support the BIble. What books are reading that is telling you that? More than 4000 things in the Bible have been discovered. Not once has archaeological discoveries disagreed with anything in the Bible. There is more of that kind of evidence for the Bible than any other book from antiquity. The is 66 books; roman and Greek history were empires.