When I published “New Testament Apologetics,” this year, it was in response to an Apologetics class I would teach in the Spring. In this book and in the Apologetics class, I taught the 21 primary false assertions that people, like Paulogia, make concerning the New Testament. In the past 49 years I have participated in thousands of debates with atheists and progressives regarding the certainty of the New Testament eyewitness narratives. During this time I have insisted that persons who state that men who never saw Jesus, wrote the Synoptic Gospels late in the first century, provide evidence to prove what they assert is true. Why do I demand that this evidence must be provided?

Impeaching Paulogia

Not Once In 49 Years Has Anyone Provided Evidence The Eyewitness Testimony About Jesus In The New Testament Is Not True

The primary assault that critics of our modern age are launching against the New Testament today, is the conjecture that these texts are not recorded by men who saw Jesus. There are 203 eyewitness statements in the 260 chapters of the New Testament. The men who penned their testimony for us—say, “I saw Jesus with my own eyes.”

(Read the graphic I provided, below)

The entire point of Jesus coming to earth was to demonstrate the existence of God, in a physical form. Jesus is described throughout the New Testament as Yahweh, the Living God of the Bible, coming to us as a human being.

At the end of Luke’s Gospel he records the words of Jesus who said that the Old Testament scriptures, in the words of the prophets, predicted that when the Messiah comes to earth, men will write their testimony about what they see and hear, and send it out to the world.

“Then Jesus said, “When I was with you before, I told you that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And he said, “Yes, it was written long ago that the Messiah would suffer and die and rise from the dead on the third day. It was also written that this message would be proclaimed in the authority of his name to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem: ‘There is forgiveness of sins for all who repent.’ You are witnesses of all these things.” ~Luke 24:44-48

God wanted every person who will be born on earth, to know that He has come to earth and fulfilled His promise to offer us all salvation. The idea that Jesus came to earth but never commanded anyone to write a record of what they saw and heard, is preposterous!

1. The Old Testament predicts a Messiah who will be seen and recorded. This is what Jesus said in Luke 24:45, above: “It was also written that this message would be proclaimed in the authority of his name to all the nations, beginning in Jerusalem.”
2. When Jesus arrived He called 12 Apostles to see and hear Him. In Matthew’s Gospel, we find the names of these men.
3. After Jesus was crucified, died, and rose from the dead, the men who saw Him alive, heard Jesus say to them personally: “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” ~Acts 1:8
4. These men who saw Jesus with their own eyes, including Paul, who Jesus personally called to be an Apostle, also said that He saw Jesus with His own eyes: (Paul) “Am I not as free as anyone else? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus our Lord with my own eyes?” ~1 Corinthians 9:1 There are 10 places in the New Testament where Paul is cited as seeing Jesus with His own eyes.
5. The New Testament was written as a historical eyewitness testimony about Jesus, by the men who saw and heard Him.
6. The New Testament was written as an accurate and reliable, Historical Record, that meets and exceeds every standard of both lower and higher literary criticism.
7. The evidence of the New Testament has been defined by legal experts as an authoritative, reliable, accurate, and historical narrative that meets every legal standard for eyewitness evidence.

My Demand of Paulogia is a valid claim. People who say that they know a particular fact about an event in the historical record that is contrary to that record must be held accountable to prove their assertions, opinions, and conjecture.

The Following is a Post that I placed on X (Twitter), and Facebook, asking Paulogia to provide us with the evidence that proves the New Testament testimony about Jesus, is not eyewitness, and not reliable:

Paul has muted me on X so that he doesn’t see or respond to my posts asking him to provide evidence to prove what he says

“Paulogia, what do you call a man who ignores the extant manuscript evidence of the New Testament, which records the words of Jesus, by the men who saw Him with their own eyes, saying, “you are my witnesses…write in a book, everything you see,” and asserting your own knowledge that these men never saw Jesus?

How do you impeach the historical eyewitness testimony of these men, and assert your own superior knowledge as an atheist—above the New Testament texts?

If you are able to provide us with evidence that the men who say they saw Jesus with their own eyes and heard Him with their ears—never saw or heard Him, show us your evidence.

I have asked you to provide this evidence many times, but you are not able. You may be a YouTube entertainer, but you are no authority on anything concerning the New Testament texts.”

See my original challenge to Paulogia, to provide evidence to prove his claim that there is no evidence for the existence of God

See the 21 primary arguments (below) that atheists and progressives make against the New Testament, historical, eyewitness narratives about Jesus, in “New Testament Apologetics.”

• 203 Eyewitness Statements About Jesus In The New Testament
• Is The New Testament A Valid Historical Narrative?
• Paul Saw The Risen Jesus With His Own Eyes
• When Were The Gospels Written?
• The Four Gospels Were Not Written Anonymously
• Legal Analysis Of The Four Gospels As Valid Eyewitness Testimony
• How Forensic Evidence Proves The New Testament Is Historical And Reliable

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