Are Math and Grammar Racist? And, Is Jesus Too Good to Be False?

Gotta be kidding me. Math is racist grammar is racist stage for the line of fire with your host activist all the international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire valves like always 866-34-TRUTH ducks 866-34-TRUTH your Jim is Dr. Michael Brown. I have an awesome broadcast eye opening as well as edifying 866-34-TRUTH this is Michael Brown welcome welcome to the line of fire or I expose error because I love truth. I will give warnings not to be controversial not so people will sale you told us so, but because I get concerned about issues in the world around us and want to sound the alarm and friends. In contrast with many many other talk radio shows that are really politically based or ideologically based or sociologically based. We are primarily biblically based in everything we do flows out of Scripture flows out of putting Jesus first and then from there we talk about relevant issues of the day so you get into this discussion about grammar and math being called racist yeah I give her feminist geography. By the way he related subject. We'll talk about that than the bottom of the hour to bring on my guest Tom Gilson. Yet Susan has an amazing new book about the character of Jesus too good to be false, ceramic, interesting, edifying, talk with Tom starting at the bottom of the hour. All right I have been like a broken record shouting out the BLM movement is not really about black lives with the BLM movement is not something that you, as followers of Jesus and lovers of the world want to be part of that we stand together in proclaiming that black lives do matter. We stand together in exposing racism where it exists in justice where it exists, we stand together as a body as a family and deal with those things at the same time we see what's behind much of the BLM movement we see where it's going. We see the spirit of anarchy and lawlessness. We see the other groups like NT 4.0 and the sub is coming in with her own lawlessness and rioting and looting and vandalizing the beginning there were people trying to justify some of the looting and vandalizing selectors of built-up frustration and pain is bursting understand when you're breaking into sub auto target store and carry out big screen TV is because George Lloyd okay that's that's limiting that's vandalism. That's lawlessness. That's greed well.

Chicago ravaged now with destruction. Police injured in some of these police and police chiefs are black. By the way, all right there taken allies in her hands to stop that the looting and the vandalizing millions of dollars in damage. Listen to this. This is BLM leader Mario Atkins, NBC news, listen to what she has to say about the looting that just took place on I 90 well as a reparation anything. This is the social madness. This is the spirit of lawlessness and anarchy that we have been addressing this is a local BLM leader, let me urge against separate from that movement with the body of Christ come together and little the people of conscience come together let us address issues where they need to be addressed and what is not a matter of systemic racism but just a history of things that were trying to fix where things are wrong or school issues or education issues with ugly dress and together let's address them together but separate from this garbage that I want to contrast that voice of that woman with several black voices all black leaders all respected in their communities. Some strongly liberal Democrats could be off in front of at least two strong liberal Democrats. Let's first listen to the Chicago superintendent of police superintendent Brown the relationship listen to what he has to say about the looting the vandalism that Took Pl., Friday through Sunday 6 PM to 1159 there were 31 shootings throughout the city.

Of which were murderers.

These shooting incidents and the looting resolved and I are completely unacceptable for most of the streets with confidence that we know the consequences for their actions and I want to refuse to allow these cowardly acts to hold our city hostage. Yeah that is a black police superintendent that is a black voice that is a black life calling this what it is else rescinded.

This is pure criminality. Then you got some BLM leader saying go ahead loot, go ahead. As we got some the oh, you're right, sure, and your looting because you want something to eat I guess you with intent take the stuff and sell on the street for food right sure that's what you getting Gucci course obviously stealing from a store like that and they got insurance what kind of madness is being cultivated and encouraged to have a black police chief superintendent saying not on our watch.

This is criminality.

What about the Democratic mayor of Chicago Mayor Lightfoot, another black voice. What is she have to say about the looting and the vandalism these individuals. Engagement can only be described as brazen and extensive criminal looting and destruction and to be clear, this had nothing to do with legitimate protected First Amendment expression to those who engage in his criminal behavior.

Let's be clear, we are coming for you all. Yeah criminal behavior. Criminal behavior. We are coming for you gladly take what you want.

Need to eat. Reparation is not reparations is nothing to do with reparations.

There's nothing righteous.

Good godly honest just about any of that zero. So of course the black superintendent of police. The black mayor or speaking truth in this situation and these are also black laws and also black voices. This conversation from Detroit. This is on Fox news and this is Detroit police chief Craig was also black.

I'm identifying these individuals is black so that no one could possibly throw this into a narrative of some type of white supremacy against the poor black looters now and look in city after city, plenty of the vandalism is done by white thugs. Another do it black logic and then do it justice whatsoever and now. The police chief of Seattle is not that a a black woman she's resigned because of the defunding of police and cutting back on job powers all yeah and what's I can lead to Blacks getting killed in an people in inner-city getting killed and poor people getting killed and gangs running rampant that this is this is why we have been shouting for weeks and weeks and weeks separate from the spirit of the BLM movement separate from what is happening and what they are pushing and let us work together to address real issues that are there. Listen to what police chief Craig had to say what are things that we saw here in Detroit almost eerily similar to what happened last night in Chicago a false narrative was perpetrated by these criminals very quickly indicated a unarmed teen was shot and then call the people come downtown loot.

Right now they're protesting first and asking questions later.

In all this is fueling as you and I discussed many times these defunding efforts going on in one city after another Police Department's yeah exactly an end.

By the way, many of the protests were based on falsehoods. For example, the Ferguson narrative hands up don't shoot is false is false okay and and and then what happens is people who know the real facts there.

People who know the truth than they they get blackballed and you can't speak to this you can addresses and my contention is that the more you build movements on lies.

The more you build movements on false narratives. The moment someone can explore that false narrative, then they can explore the whole movement, even if there is much truth, even if there real issues. I think we all agree, I would think very, very few Americans would disagree with the notion that there is police brutality that that police sometimes go too far, we have very different views of how often that happens. But we degree a difficult job and and often taken their own lives and in in their hands and we can't relate to a lot of the dangerous issues that they face the oath, but certainly you got bad apples in certain is police brutality. So we all agree. Let's deal with that. But then you have the false narrative you have the hands up don't shoot that did not happen that three separate investigations, two of which were really looking for evidence of habit.

None could find that that actually happened.

People could then dismiss the whole police brutality narrative they can dismiss the whole narrative as a leather happen there facility relies.

This is when I do a debate if I've a choice between giving you five irrefutable points and 5.7 strong so 10 points total.

It's wiser that I just made from the five irrefutable ones because otherwise if I go to school debating pole with that person will do is they'll just pick the other five off as an artist. Are there strong, but they're not as strong. Go pick those off and therefore make it look like the others don't exist. So let's not give anybody an excuse for dealing with the truth. Let's put truthful narratives out there recent rights which Chicago allegedly shooting for the good Riso turns out that there was a man been arrested four times, including endangering a child shooting at police. They return fire.

He was shot House was expected to live but it was based on false narratives another police shooting unjustified riots. The looting here.

Can you name for me a more prominent black voice that is associated with the liberal democratic movement that is been widely respected in many circles for many many years as a civil rights leader to name a voice to be louder than Jesse Jackson right obviously has his critics okay feminist politics, but certainly prominent voice you look at what Jesse Jackson tweeted Jesse Jackson about the rights of this active pillaging, robbing and looting in Chicago was humiliating, embarrassing and morally wrong.

It must not be associated with our quest for social justice and equality.

Dr. King, Gregor Everett, John Lewis or Morris cried together in shame, stopped Yvonne save the children right now. I'll be seaward social justice that a certain meaning an agenda with it. So he's being who he is, but my point is for Rev. Jesse Jackson to say this is embarrassing.

This is humiliating to call it pillaging he's exactly right friends. There is a dangerous spirit spirit of anarchy, lawlessness, rebellion, as we forget, there is a Jezebel experience behind much of this, it is destructive, and soon enough it will turn on you as a follower of Jesus, so let's get on with the matter of justice.

Let's get on with the matter of having helpful conversations and learning from each other. Let's get on with the matter of dealing with issues with exist and let's do away with this nonsense that looting is reparation nonsense here on the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown. Your voice is more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown and I am not making this not a headline misreporting on a misleading article, but actual tweets tax statements from professors, from University websites that support the idea that math is inherently racist that grammar is inherently racist yet proper grammar. For example, for example, you grew up in a certain part of America. The education received the way you learn to speak with is not in harmony with the way people were learning and most of the rest of the country so you learn with improper grammar because of your environment, the school system didn't really support you now you are able to make it into college, but now in college you will be penalized for improper grammar and proper word usage, and therefore that is a racist construct. Instead, you should be graded based on your your effort, not grammar.

If it's an English writing assignment math to say 2+2 is four is also racist. I've written an article on this grammar is racist.

Math is racist so you again.

I address these things because they make a mockery of dealing with real issues of racism that they make a mockery in in in looking at any lingering effects from our past history in America. They make a mockery of that and they allow people to just scoring the whole subject in my Samantha's racist grandmas racist or you if you dare question it then that proves you are racist. Oh yeah okay so last month there was a story a lot of circulation records University declared grammar to be racist.

It was one professor had made certain statements. The professor said she was misunderstood fact checkers have challenge that different fact checkers have have challenge that so let's step back from that. But February 21, 2017 unity of University of Washington produced an antiracist poster, which consists American grammar is racist and an unjust language structure promising to prioritize rhetoric over grammatical correctness. If you really say the thing with passion, even if it's grammatically full of error than you get good English grades for that is explained on the University's Tacoma-based website.

Racism is the normal condition of things linguistic and writing research is shown clearly for many decades that there is no inherent standard of English language is constantly changing. These two facts make it very difficult to justify placing people in hierarchies or restricting opportunities and privileges because of the way people communicate, in particular versions of English so here's the point. English is not standardized across the country. For example, in the South. You could use expression on fixing to do this, but in New York if you're fixing your got a tour in your hand or fixing something there. There are expressions that we use. There are words we use words that get picked up urban vocabulary gets picked up the word woke got picked up by the mainstream things like that so there's no standard and and therefore to subject people to that standard. Now they they get into a higher educational setting that's that's racist because obviously it's it's the white grammar. The predominant grammar the elite grammar that's considered proper English than not what's interesting is that statement. Use proper English. That statement was grammatically correct that statement.

Use capitalization. That statement put periods where they belonged that statement. Use conjunctions and prepositions, nouns and verbs properly, because there are basic roles. There are basic rules, and if you communicate use those basic rules you will be misunderstood and if you're in college to learn certain skills to equip you for the workplace to equip you for career then you have to learn to use words properly. That's not racist you say, but it's unfair because a lot of kids going through the city don't have good educational opportunities. They got a few strikes against. That's a big question. That's a massive question that's a giant issue and doing need to make school vouchers possible for them so they can go to other schools and what can we do together as a country to help address some of these real issues that the whole purpose though of education limits is to correct the errors and fill in the truth and give right helpful information. Okay, let's go further. Professor Walter Williams daily signal September 11, 2019, wrote this just we thought colleges could not spout linear ideas. We have a new one from American University.

They hired a professor to teach other professors to grade students based on their labor rather than their writing ability. So the newly hired Prof. a cell B annuity who interesting ups also served as a professor. The affirmation University of Washington Tacoma decent profit. Williams noted that annuity believes that a person's writing ability should not be assessed in order to promote antiracist objectives and return American University's faculty members that their previous practices of grading writing promoted white language supremacy friends. This is utterly ridiculous. I do understand the issue that is being raised in a for example standardized test have been use SATs PSAT's for decades, and where we are in the country as far as I know everybody takes the same test well their kids grow up in the inner-city. Many, many years ago.

Decades ago I saw this and you certain vocabulary. Certain ways and when they would get to these test they would do really poorly on them and then to illustrate the point. Kids that grew up say white kids in suburbia. They were given a test in language that would be more appropriate for inner-city kids and they bombed on those tests because the vocabulary was so different I understand the issues understand them deeply and without I don't work within that children's education field, but I understand the issue. I managed in the point. These guys are making but the you are trying to get some level of uniformity in a culture you arch.

There is a reason. For example, where if you are on prime time TV your sportscasters like that you don't use profanity all right.

And then you may have a live event that's on cable and they use because it's a different setting in their left, so it's understood there a certain protocol. Their methods of communication. I go on further. Yeah. How about a lecture from this professor creating antiracist writing assessment ecologies and writing courses. Okay, let's let's move forward it to math Subaru math August 9, 2020.

So just couple days ago campus reform announce that math professors and academics at top universities, including Harvard and the University of Illinois discussed the Eurocentric roots of American mathematics on Twitter. They asserted that the statement 2+2 = 4 is rooted in Western definitions of mathematics, so Ben's Islip reports Lori Rubio, who teaches math education at Brooklyn College.

Since the idea of math being cultural neutral cultural neutral is a myth that asked with a 2+2 = 4 weeks of white supremacist patriarchy about of course obviously and hate. I was always good at math talk about white supremacy right all in Jewish white supremacy on top of it. So here's her tweet, along with the of course math is neutral 2+2 = 4 trope or the related and be math is pure and protect math's of these quotes Samantha Spear protect methods creepy reeks of white supremacist patriarchy. You protect math rates of white supremacist patriarchy is that I'd rather think on nurturing people and protecting the planet with math in service of them goals of that you intentionally support crammer to prove a point. She added that it mattered that is culturally neutral in any way objective is a myth. When the move on without understanding who's coming with me. I mean, to me this offices simple as 2+2 = 4.

But however that's not racist even say it right now. Let's step back from this remote.

There are arguments that the way data is used and processed in America put certain people at disadvantage could be this possible.

But that does not. So you look into those issues. I'm always open-minded to look into issues with people say there's more going on with him. I'm open-minded to look into that. But come on to say that 2+2 = 4 is not simple objective truth is that reeks of white supremacy to me that that reeks of the social madness that that weeks of a massive educational philosophy of deconstructing truth and friends.

This is what universities have been about four years and we need more and more universities that teach facts and history truth in history is taught, now John resort about this feel about that in the here decades ago. Decades ago there was something called feminist geography. A member read about this years ago.

So in my article I talk about feminist geography emerged in the 1970s when members of the women's movement called on academia to include women as both producers and subjects of academic work.

Feminist geographers and to incorporate positions of race, class, ability and sexuality into studying geography. So how do you do that you look at the typography of of Greenland or the, the size of Iceland or the borders of Mexico and the how, how will you incorporate positions, race, class, billion six wrong the study of geography. So the Wikipedia article says the disciplines been subject to several controversies so instead of the so-called 3Rs reading, writing and arithmetic. Today, the 3Rs would rather be described as revisionist radical and ridiculous.

It's a simple as a B, C, there you have it call me what names and by the Expo line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown of your voice and more cultural and spiritual revolution. Here again is Dr. Michael Brown to have campus ministry. He has been a Christian strategist and thinker.

He's now a senior editor with the streamer normally write about five articles a week is the author or editor of six books written talk about his most recent book, the thing I've always appreciated about Tom, is there is a Christlike security and compassion in him, by which I mean whatever you throw his way objection, problem, issue. This is security with which he hears it, and a caring about people first response.

In other words, it's not about winning an argument is about helping people. So Tom's newest book too good to be false. How Jesus is incomparable character reveals his reality. Tom welcome back to the line of fire. Thanks for joining us forever and Michael here so Tom before we dig into your new book. Let's just talk about the importance of having answers for difficult questions people are asking we're hearing about Christian leaders falling away from the faith, and many of them give reasons like the problem of evil with the church's stance on homosexuality. Many kids don't believe with their parents believe, why do you think it's essential that the church provide solid answers for these type of questions whether internal or public figure.

Her bulimic you brought it up are you present what might be in your article. Her couple years later idea, but on why do you still believe that because the things he taught are still true. He knew he had reason to believe course. All of the home. Dad in you that it was still true and it didn't fall away. And it is still true even if people make mistakes even vaguely so the truths was secure enough deep enough in his heart he knew it wasn't just I had an experience and I got a come shut my mind off that you had talked with your son about the issues over the years and in you've written.

You've written articles about going to major questions that come up. You've written a book that I endorse with questions that kids ask about homosexuality and have these conversations so you must on a regular basis here from people that are struggling or my son no longer believes my daughter is a believer.

What I tell my kid in college you must run into this all the time.

We are mind like water.

Most of my personal relationships or other cursory but it is also with Christian marriages are and there's a lot of people are. And part of the point of too good to be false. No matter what. In other words, he still good enough to still the true go to work following her talk kind to pay. Therefore take part in the road you will have trouble. But take heart. I'll I have overcome the world. So let's let's get to your your newest book, and I know you are really excited about it and you got some amazing endorsements about it. So what, what's the thesis of his fascinating title with the thesis topic 222 good difficult and I had people live, including all of the billionaire okay when I picked up the book, I was skeptical and pretty sure you can't make that work and an inverted okayed it work.

The thing you want to do is not jump to the conclusion that it thing that you've heard before.

This hasn't been published in 90 years or more. This way of looking at both and the two of the third part that the first part is how incredibly astonishingly amazing. I had the I had to tell my typewriter not to write more superlative active work and then the second part of you.

Good Picked up by nation or where the story came from doesn't fit the story that it can't be there explanation can't be the right explanation for how we got our gospel and to the other explanation is true, it is not legend her right so we begin to that and think through issues of skeptics. By the way, if you consider yourself a skeptical work or find what Tom is saying to be hard to believe some incredible gifts call 866-34-TRUTH 866-3487 84 may take some calls before the we get to the top of the hour, but I remember many years ago reading Charles Spurgeon and he was talking about the character of different people in the Bible and you think of Peter and you can describe his character. Paul, you can describe in Jeremiah you can describe Moses you can describe them based on what we know. But Jesus transcended any one category that to try to describe him as as one way or leaning this way was completely missing the larger point so paints a picture for us. Most people listening our believers, but I don't think we fully appreciate who Jesus really is so go ahead with some of the superlatives paints a picture of this rising Savior. There are other part of the book, but the first one that I that I realized in the first chapter in the book is about acknowledging law and are start by measuring what it be like to have incredible power and in what would you do if you were suddenly granted incredible power. Maybe someone gave you $1 billion in general economic or maybe you got bitten by a radioactive area or something and you have the incredible ability to depict no one else could do. Jesus had incredible power even beyond those imagining if I were the best person in history are one and I got $1 billion and I was giving it all the mission feeding the poor and stopping trafficking and everything else. I think I might still get the roof repaired I might still take my family out on a vacation you what Jesus did what unbelievable power which by the way, always, always corrupt when you have that much power to some degree didn't even turn a stone into a piece of bread when he was hungry and uses power only others and I can't imagine being that good. It actually hears me to think that I would do everything for the good of others. The way he did, and I look at that and and I although my faith God you are beyond me and God. For me this is where worship actually flows, not just from the front heart when you realize how much better you realized one of you and in just as you're throwing that out. The question is how often did most of us really think about that. Probably never play again this is 11.1 chapter in your book so you start off seeing Jesus through new eyes.

And then, part one grader, then you know and this is then divided into Jesus's astonishing love is surpassing brilliance's authority is paradoxical leadership's role changing mission. The man was God. Jesus friend. So let's let's talk about his is paradoxical leadership.

What's so extraordinary about that there are leadership books written about you live in Ramallah but I don't think they get really weird about the leader's leadership in human terms, but I got a Masters in organizational by another leadership of Herman terms never worked but it did something else is going on to make it work.

Here's what I mean you don't can you imagine following a leader always right, who never learned from the mistake you never want your opinion unless you want when you're wrong. Who never learned from experience it his way or the highway. This is a picture of a person to work with and yet people followed him gladly.

So you have to look into what was it about you that made people want to follow him. When they would never follow another human leader with those with those trait and and if you did have the authority. He wasn't ever wrong didn't learn from his mistakes because he didn't make any and somehow credible overwhelming law must've gotten through to them so they think. Something very unusual to make up for what would normally in the literature on portable leadership. By the way there. He started a moment of still going to thousand years and billions of people later about bad leadership track record and people are willing to die for him to go to the false Jesus incomparable character reveals his reality. Right now the number one new release in Christian apologetics on Amazon and the endorsers is like a Who's Who list of of senior apologist Josh McDowell Lee Strobel J.P. Moreland Erica taxes just metastasis but takes a fresh look at the uniquely great character of Jesus and finds in his greatness, a new and compelling case for the truth of his story and presented in the Gospels we got a minute before the break. How did writing this book affect you brought me in touch with. Like never before and I am worshiping him and in Lubbock down like I have never been directly, making it easier to walk with a livening marker light and I love telling the story that it made it more fun dollars story. Yeah it it's when you focus on him gaze on him Isaac Ambrose with a 700 page book called, looking unto Jesus that Linette Ravenhill used to recommend to preachers.

He said the whole bucket for is on those three words from Hebrews 12, looking unto Jesus, but it is an extraordinary thing that gazing on him really miss anyone when I wrote a book recently. The focus of the resurrection I was. I was blown away even more by the reality of the resurrection.

Having focused on it right will be back with Tom Gilson. I want to take up the question of the skeptics challenge and how this is responded to the new book too good to be false. Fascinating title for Jesus's car income character reveals his reality. Yeah last Pro book for 3G system out of what was the fastest teaches of ministry study guide practical as always, Greg, it's the line of fire with your host activist, author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 66343 here again is Dr. Michael Brown speaking with my friend Holly. This articles is new book too good to be false. Looking at the character of Jesus.

So Tom obviously many skeptics who question the veracity of what's written in the Gospels, the dependability of it is addressed later.

Myths like the so-called apocryphal gospels, and you have an appendix dealing with that. But how how the gospel accounts demonstrate the truth of the gospel accounts is an account using circular reason to to to prove what you've already assumed it of these are inspired writings in a painting inspired picture, and therefore there inspired.

So what's the critics argument how you respond to it. Yeah it circular reasoning could I do good… Or other information to draw in and and what it is the critic the skeptics will tell you the end and we all agree.

By the way the story and I think everyone agreed stories come from somewhere and you need to have some explanation for where start for a story like this would come from because it is an unusual start working people are following where did the story come from well this is where we add new information. Skeptics generally speaking, encounters variation skeptics. Generally speaking of.

The story started when the disciples were disappointed that because it really was a generic following, but they were just devastated when he died and and it invested so much in him that, and it happened. I called it a deal of it under cognitive dissonance. That they had to find a way to make it through and put a.

They invented a resurrection, but he could still be there. Fire took out off to a shaky start with something it would normally we would call this kind of crazy. And then from there.

What you'll hear our government department or books about what he called the telephone game where the story spread around everywhere Europe, Asia minor, North Africa, and in the Israel region and and it went and changed oral tradition 1 mile still inactive but kept changing and exporting what happened when that when stories do that they change so he thinks that that explain things like maybe how many of the discrepancy or parent discomfort. And how many there were at the 201 it changed in the developed and it morphed into the God story that we have so that a typical skeptical explanation for where the gospel came from. The problem is the back story have a story in the book I talk about the novel about concert pianist were were living. Conker explained that this novel is true to what it's like everything from being on the road to feeling the music blog from your fingers for the opening up of the book to look at the flyleaf and it was working by pro hockey player from Calgary and his business manager to go now that there back story have bought skeptics back story. As I look at that government story changed that's way too weak a word for it.

They didn't distort it to get corrupted. They scrambled when they go through that kind of multicultural multi language both very everything kind of telephone game and then they'll all circulated back and they landed in for places Matthew Mark Luke and John, quality of interdependent, but for different places and they all landed on one character Jesus who is decidedly not scrambled.

Perfect in multiple discernible objectively describable at the character in it. Thank you all for landing the back story.

The story scrambling back story doesn't explain Jesus because you perfectly integrated one person and and and unique.

There were no other Jews like him I don't like them how to land there if it was scrambled along the way. I don't think that the skeptics story explains how we got the Gospels and the only other live auction on the table right now. The Gospels are true reportage of the man you really live right. So when you sync through the critical series when you give credence to them and then try to put things together. You don't and up with this Jesus, you don't end up with this personage and especially when people point to alleged discrepancies between them.

That would indicate that the lease that they didn't all sit together in the same room and say let's make sure that we tell the soul exactly the same way as we can sign the individuality in them and yet what emerges is the kind of thing you like someone some famous astrophysicist once said that astrophysicist that the idea of just creation just happening on its own. The Big Bang on its own.

His dislike of what a hurricane sweeps through a junkyard, you end up with a Boeing 747 it's it's the same kind of thing except in a literary way out what what about you have an appendix on this the up the apocryphal gospels aren't there other gospels that are just as early that tell different stories about Jesus know they're not early the Gospels and in the canon. They're all certainly perfect. There's some discussion of what point in the first the apocryphal glass gospel are all at least later than 108 probably in many of the much later thing to is you can look at them and you go okay that's not the thing. Yeah it is a good thing and it almost interesting to look at them and filter that doesn't look like he's a new go back and look at the four key really is the same character all the way through the exhibit the same character all the way through, and it becomes even more clear by the comparison yeah and and again when you when you lease of the apocryphal accounts is when the person you happen to think where they get this from Eaton announces that the Jesus of of the Quran is very different Jesus. That's because some of Mohammed's influencers and teachers got stuff from other material later material and then there's no evidence that these apocryphal gospels were widely accepted in the early church or put together in collections with the synoptic Gospels and in regular canonical collections and things like that. So again, it's just one of these things as race, but when you dig deeper, it falls apart Tom last question, what are you hoping that readers will get out of this pastors, leaders just interested Christian readers we hope will get out of this book.

For one thing I'll do it in community or discussion guide in the back for people to do in our group if they can't read the Gary ever despite. I hope they enjoy reading it, but I hope they really get a picture of how great you is that how greatly we can trust in the truth of a story so that by the way when the pressure comes. This is part three of the book when a person or company can still following to no matter what yeah and in Tom. You know my story committee faces young Jewish men challenged by the rabbis challenged by professors. You can get thrown in the deep water and have to learn how to swim.

But the more you ask the hard questions which God doesn't mind the more you find solid answers.

We both had the same experience. The unexpected, deepening and confirming of faith when were examining difficult critical issues that that the bigger the degree deep. The deeper you dig that the, the more solid the foundation you fine also friends you can order the book on on Amazon get the e-book or the paperback Tom Gilson GIL SON to good to be false.

You could read Tom's articles every single week over the stream screamed out okay Tom, keep up the great work and may the Lord bless the circulation of this book affected by, covered under your bed absolutely yeah I remember being it some meetings with Tom some strategy meetings and things like that and what always appreciated was that heart for goods let's be practical here. Let's think this through.

Let's let's look at a strategy that's actually going to help people and then let's welcome the hard questions friends a lot of people are losing their faith.

This these days because the church is not creating an environment where they feel comfortable asking the hard questions, or if they do were not providing the solid answers for them and look Christian apologetics are very strong today. There are many, many fine teachers from scientific subjects to theological subjects to philosophical subjects to subjects dealing with different religions and so on.

There's a lot of material and a lot of it's available for free yet others I write books I poring through books. You'll get the book and get everything I can point to in that form, but there's a ton of stuff that's available freely. You can watch on YouTube. You can go to various websites of various apologists read the information you could watch teaching videos and you can buy the books to go deeper take all courses. The information is available. Let's create an environment where people feel free feel secure enough to be able to ask difficult questions challenging questions and and if we do have the answer responses. That's a great question. Nobody ever asked me that before. Let's to get let's let's finances together. Let's do that. I was just talking to a Jewish man yesterday struggling with his faith that I sent a memo will get you strong, but not by sticking her head in the sand.

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