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Deeper Waters Podcast 5/5/2018: J.P. Holding

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  • Deeper Waters Podcast 5/5/2018: J.P. Holding

    What's coming up?

    The link can be found here.

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    What's coming up? Let's plunge into the Deeper Waters and find out.

    Today, we live in a world that has largely been Christianized. While there are still many people that have never heard the name of Jesus, there are billions that have. Christianity is the major dominating force in the world today. Jesus Christ has had more impact on the world than anyone else who ever lived.

    How did we get to this point? What is it that made Christianity survive? It's easy to say Constantine and blame him for everything, but how did Christianity even get to Constantine? It was a highly persecuted faith and a very shameful one.

    Bart Ehrman has a theory and he recently discussed his theory in the book*The Triumph of Christianity. As readers of this blog know, I was not impressed with this one and found it severely lacking. Ehrman never even touched on many significant issues.*

    However, there are other theories about how Christianity came to survive. One that is anathema to Ehrman would be that Christianity is true. Even still, how did it survive? What made it difficult to survive? Would Christianity have even been seen as appealing by the people at the time?

    One of my favorite explanations for the rise of Christianity comes from my ministry partner. He has talked about it in his book*The Impossible Faith. This is that if Christianity was false, it should have died out and it should have died out easily. That Christianity survived is in reality a testimony to its truth. He's J.P. Holding and he'll be returning to the Deeper Waters Podcast this Saturday.

    So who is he?

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    J. P. Holding has a Masters' Degree in Library Science and is a contributing writer to the Christian Research Journal. He has also written for the publications of Creation Ministries International.
    I also want to give a special update. A kind fan of Deeper Waters has donated to us a webcam and some web editing software. Hopefully, we will be able to make videos soon. We will be doing this episode on Facebook live so you can hear the interview live and if you have questions, you can feel free to ask those. It's up to my discretion if a question gets on the air or not, but it will be good to see your interactions.

    We will be talking about the problems of Bart Ehrman's book and where he goes wrong and anything he might get right as well. We will be talking about his approach to the Gospels and to ancient evidence. One aspect I definitely hope to touch on is why is it that honor and shame get no real traction in his book? Does Ehrman still not understand how the ancient world worked?

    I hope you'll be watching for this latest episode of the Deeper Waters Podcast. We can be sure of Facebook Live, but we could also try for YouTube Live. It's a great way of branching out. Please go on iTunes also and leave a positive review of the Deeper Waters Podcast.

    In Christ,
    Nick Peters

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