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Why I Trust The Bible

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Why I Trust The Bible
Length: 30:44
Size: 14 MB
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Speaker: Glen Davis — 5/18/2005


Check out these web­sites if you’d like to learn more:

Tac­i­tus (55–117): Annals 15.44
http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.11.xv.html (search for Chris­tians on the page)

Sue­to­nius (70–160): Life of Claudius 25.4
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Claudius*.html#25

Jose­phus (37-100ish): Antiq­ui­ties 18.3.3 (and 20.9.1)
The stan­dard text: http://www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/ant-18.htm
A crit­i­cal text: http://www.religiousstudies.uncc.edu/jdtabor/josephus-jesus.html

An excel­lent arti­cle sum­ma­riz­ing these and other sources I didn’t bring up to save time is at
http://www.christian-thinktank.com/jesusref.html

And for a skep­ti­cal com­men­tary on the Jose­phus pas­sage, check out
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jeff_lowder/jury/chap5.html#josephus

And in case you’re curi­ous about the Bib­li­cal prophe­cies I men­tioned,
Tyre: Ezekiel 26
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/254
http://www.trinitysem.edu/journal/prophesy.html
and an arti­cle that address com­mon cri­tiques of the prophecy at http://www.tektonics.org/uz/zeketyre.html

Bib­li­cal prophe­cies about the restora­tion of Israel:
http://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/nationhood.htm
http://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/restoration.htm

As always: my list­ing of a site does not mean that I endorse the site in gen­eral or even every detail of the page I ref­er­ence. Be a crit­i­cal thinker!