Jesus: Son of God Or Nobody At All
One popular notion that Bible expert Jonathan Morrow tackles is that Jesus Christ was just a good and wise teacher, but not the divine Son of God. He argues Jesus' own words don't leave that option open.
Morrow said of Jesus, "He claimed to be representing God in the flesh, walking around saying 'I'm the one with authority. The judgment at the end of time hinges on me I claim to forgive sins. Only God can do that.'"
Morrow's book "Questioning the Bible" is full of reasoned arguments on why readers can trust the accuracy and reliability of the Scriptures.
He's also behind ThinkChristianly.org, a website featuring news items like "Archaeologists Have Discovered Seal of Biblical King Hezekiah" and podcasts on subjects such as "Was Jesus Invented and Borrowed from Pagan Mythology?"
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Morrow says those who believe the New Testament is all just made up stories and part of a vast conspiracy neglect how much the Gospel writers relied on eyewitness testimony and called on their readers to go check with those eyewitnesses themselves.
Morrow points out how Luke author of The Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts said, "I investigated all these things carefully. These people are still alive. Go talk to them."
Peter and John were themselves eyewitnesses to all Jesus did. Luke and Paul interviewed the apostles and were writing when many people were still alive who knew Jesus and saw what He did.
"When you're doing history, you want early and you want eyewitnesses," Morrow stated. "And the Gospel writers give you both."
"It has all the ring of truth, and not the ring of that conspiracy theory where they just made this thing up to invent their own religion," Morrow argued.
