Lee Strobel

But she refers to the we that, you know, we don't know where they've taken them. So that reconciled that issue. And there's virtually every... so-called contradiction in the Gospels, it disappears when you begin reading them in the same way you would read Plutarch or any other ancient historian, using the same literary techniques that they used in that day and they use today.

Use that same technique today.

Use that same technique today.

Use that same technique today.

That's right. But they didn't. And somebody did it in the year 175 AD. It was a Tatian. He developed what's called the Diatessaron. He went through the four Gospels and blended them. Took out all the discrepancies. Just blended them together. You know what? Nobody reads that. Nobody cares. The first century folks didn't see this as being an issue.

That's right. But they didn't. And somebody did it in the year 175 AD. It was a Tatian. He developed what's called the Diatessaron. He went through the four Gospels and blended them. Took out all the discrepancies. Just blended them together. You know what? Nobody reads that. Nobody cares. The first century folks didn't see this as being an issue.

That's right. But they didn't. And somebody did it in the year 175 AD. It was a Tatian. He developed what's called the Diatessaron. He went through the four Gospels and blended them. Took out all the discrepancies. Just blended them together. You know what? Nobody reads that. Nobody cares. The first century folks didn't see this as being an issue.

They didn't see a discrepancy because they were reading it as they would read any other ancient writing.

They didn't see a discrepancy because they were reading it as they would read any other ancient writing.

They didn't see a discrepancy because they were reading it as they would read any other ancient writing.

They were the ones chosen through whom the Messiah would come into humankind and bless all nations.

They were the ones chosen through whom the Messiah would come into humankind and bless all nations.

They were the ones chosen through whom the Messiah would come into humankind and bless all nations.

I gotcha. You know, it striked me because you and I were talking about Santa Barbara earlier and how you love Santa Barbara. And I was thinking that, you know, we've talked about these prophecies that hundreds of years before Jesus that point toward the crucifixion, the resurrection, all this stuff.

I gotcha. You know, it striked me because you and I were talking about Santa Barbara earlier and how you love Santa Barbara. And I was thinking that, you know, we've talked about these prophecies that hundreds of years before Jesus that point toward the crucifixion, the resurrection, all this stuff.

I gotcha. You know, it striked me because you and I were talking about Santa Barbara earlier and how you love Santa Barbara. And I was thinking that, you know, we've talked about these prophecies that hundreds of years before Jesus that point toward the crucifixion, the resurrection, all this stuff.

And, you know, when I was a skeptic, I used to think, oh, he just maneuvered his life to, you know, like it says, the Messiah will ride a donkey into Jerusalem and he just got a donkey and rode in. So it He knew all this.

And, you know, when I was a skeptic, I used to think, oh, he just maneuvered his life to, you know, like it says, the Messiah will ride a donkey into Jerusalem and he just got a donkey and rode in. So it He knew all this.

And, you know, when I was a skeptic, I used to think, oh, he just maneuvered his life to, you know, like it says, the Messiah will ride a donkey into Jerusalem and he just got a donkey and rode in. So it He knew all this.

He knew all that, but there was all these things he couldn't have fulfilled, like where he was born and the time he was born and soldiers gambling for his garment, all these things he couldn't have fulfilled.