Jon Topping

The Bible is an OLD book. How am I supposed to understand it? Where do I start? This week Jon begins a mini-series on Bible reading tips.

What if what the skeptics said actually confirmed what we knew about the Bible?

Details in the New Testament support that it was written by people during that time, in those places, & who actually observed those events!

Are the gospels pseudepigraphical (texts whose claimed author is not the true author)?

Are eyewitness testimonies even a good thing to have?

Use the tools uses Author Motivation, Coherency through Other Events, and Double Similarity to prove the reliability of the New Testament.

Tools to test the reliability of the New Testament: enemy attestation, Aramaic substrata, and independent sources.

Timing, coherency, and embarrassment are three historiographical methods of determining the reliability of a document’s content.

Correcting the misinformation and assumptions that inform the views many people have towards the trustworthiness of the bible.

Apologist Jon Topping introduces the topic of the podcast - the believability and basics of the Christian faith. He explores how he personal