Is The New Testament Reliable Debate || Godless Engineer vs RCA
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Channel: Godless Engineer · 2018 · Entertainment
What's Up Heathens! Today we are listening to the opening statements of both Reformed Christian Apologist (RCA) and I on the Reliability of the New Testament. You can also vote for who won! For me, I attack the reliability on three fronts: Textual Reliability, Historical Reliability, and Theological Reliability. The New Testament isn't Textually reliable because for the time period that we have documents for we see lots of errors, interpolations, additions, and omissions occurring. That period does not include the first 200 years of manuscripts that we simply don't have. There would have been rampant changing of the text in the early days of the religion so we can't be sure what we have to start with is even close to what was originally written. On Historical Reliability, we simply cannot trust the bible to give us good historical information because it was written for theology purposes and not to record history. We see this with the differences in the Gospel narratives and the differences in the teachings of its many anonymous authors. From the birth narrative being confusing and contradictory all the way through to the end is being created to serve a theological purpose. While it may get some historical names and places correct, it doesn't offset the massively unreliable historical claims it makes. Theologically it's unreliable because we simply don't know what the original message was. The number of errors, interpolations, additions, and omissions changes this message and we only know how the message changed 400 - 500 years after our earliest codex and that leaves 200 years worth of changes that we simply don't know about. So how can it be theologically reliable when we are only getting the message from about the 3rd century instead of the first. Original Stream: http://bit.ly/IsTheNewTestamentReliableDebate Research Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textual_variants_in_the_New_Testament https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/new-testament/the-strange-ending-of-the-gospel-of-mark-and-why-it-makes-all-the-difference/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_16 https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/questions/1156/is-1-corinthians-1433-35-an-interpolation https://web.archive.org/web/20100621102730/http:/religion-online.org/showchapter.asp?title=1116&C=1234 https://callingchristians.com/2014/06/11/the-problem-of-luke-2334/ Subscribe to this channel: https://goo.gl/2oZaqY Become a Patron: http://goo.gl/VRVjxK Intro by "Gonna Go For it": https://goo.gl/1Ay1Q3 FOLLOW me on Twitter: https://goo.gl/BbxhWL LIKE on Facebook: https://goo.gl/3xEibn FOLLOW on Instagram: https://goo.gl/jakMWx FOLLOW on Twitch: https://goo.gl/FhVHrG
