Bible Expert (likely Wesley Huff or a co-host closely involved with Biblical scholarship)

That was Aliens. I watched that documentary. Yes, it was a great documentary. So it's not that that church is fake. It's just that the stories that come up around these particular things are much later and their reliability is iffy. Okay, I went to the anointing stone when I was in Jerusalem. Is that real? That has a lot more early provenance.

The stuff in Jerusalem has a lot more credibility because we have records going back to the second century of people going there in pilgrimages. So a lot of the locations for the Holy Sepulchre or that kind of stuff, they go back to Constantine's mom. who went to Jerusalem and established some of these things. Got it.

The stuff in Jerusalem has a lot more credibility because we have records going back to the second century of people going there in pilgrimages. So a lot of the locations for the Holy Sepulchre or that kind of stuff, they go back to Constantine's mom. who went to Jerusalem and established some of these things. Got it.

The stuff in Jerusalem has a lot more credibility because we have records going back to the second century of people going there in pilgrimages. So a lot of the locations for the Holy Sepulchre or that kind of stuff, they go back to Constantine's mom. who went to Jerusalem and established some of these things. Got it.

But she did so based on, like, a world chain of custody where she went to the places where the locals were saying, we've been going here for hundreds of years, and these are the connection points. Got it. So that's some word of mouth right there. It is, but it's like the chain of custody going back, arguably, to, like, there's a reliable sense. So are there questions about all these things? Sure.

But she did so based on, like, a world chain of custody where she went to the places where the locals were saying, we've been going here for hundreds of years, and these are the connection points. Got it. So that's some word of mouth right there. It is, but it's like the chain of custody going back, arguably, to, like, there's a reliable sense. So are there questions about all these things? Sure.

But she did so based on, like, a world chain of custody where she went to the places where the locals were saying, we've been going here for hundreds of years, and these are the connection points. Got it. So that's some word of mouth right there. It is, but it's like the chain of custody going back, arguably, to, like, there's a reliable sense. So are there questions about all these things? Sure.

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Well, so there are differentiations in detail because we have four Gospels. Yeah, explain what the Gospels are to people out there like me. Yeah. Good Catholics like you. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are these biographies of Jesus' life. So two of them claim to be written by eyewitnesses. Matthew is Levi, the tax collector, and John is the disciple, John. Luke and Mark are not.

Well, so there are differentiations in detail because we have four Gospels. Yeah, explain what the Gospels are to people out there like me. Yeah. Good Catholics like you. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are these biographies of Jesus' life. So two of them claim to be written by eyewitnesses. Matthew is Levi, the tax collector, and John is the disciple, John. Luke and Mark are not.

Well, so there are differentiations in detail because we have four Gospels. Yeah, explain what the Gospels are to people out there like me. Yeah. Good Catholics like you. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John are these biographies of Jesus' life. So two of them claim to be written by eyewitnesses. Matthew is Levi, the tax collector, and John is the disciple, John. Luke and Mark are not.

So Luke is a traveling companion of Paul who writes this twofold document, Luke and Acts. And then Mark is, in the earliest church tradition, he's a traveling companion of Peter. So he gets his source information from Peter, which is really interesting in the fact that Peter does not look good in Mark. Like, that's where, you know, get behind me, Satan. He's the disciple.

So Luke is a traveling companion of Paul who writes this twofold document, Luke and Acts. And then Mark is, in the earliest church tradition, he's a traveling companion of Peter. So he gets his source information from Peter, which is really interesting in the fact that Peter does not look good in Mark. Like, that's where, you know, get behind me, Satan. He's the disciple.

So Luke is a traveling companion of Paul who writes this twofold document, Luke and Acts. And then Mark is, in the earliest church tradition, he's a traveling companion of Peter. So he gets his source information from Peter, which is really interesting in the fact that Peter does not look good in Mark. Like, that's where, you know, get behind me, Satan. He's the disciple.

Like, he's continually not getting what Jesus is saying. And he, like, runs away, denies Jesus. So if... If the earliest source material is true, which I think we have no reason not to think it is, especially because they don't then call it the Gospel of Peter. which they could if they're like, well, this is Peter's source information.

Like, he's continually not getting what Jesus is saying. And he, like, runs away, denies Jesus. So if... If the earliest source material is true, which I think we have no reason not to think it is, especially because they don't then call it the Gospel of Peter. which they could if they're like, well, this is Peter's source information.

Like, he's continually not getting what Jesus is saying. And he, like, runs away, denies Jesus. So if... If the earliest source material is true, which I think we have no reason not to think it is, especially because they don't then call it the Gospel of Peter. which they could if they're like, well, this is Peter's source information.

They call it the Gospel of Mark, who Mark's generally a nobody. That only gives credibility to the fact that Mark probably wrote it. And then it has this connection directly with Peter himself. So four Gospels, two are claimed to be eyewitnesses who wrote them, and then two claim to be like associates of— Secondhand, yeah. Yeah.