Wesley Huff

And that's exactly what happens.

And they know that there is a danger to this because we have in the book of Acts, which is the book after the Gospels, we have a recounting of the first martyr of Stephen.

In a certain regard, in terms of the disciples, though, I think like if they know this isn't true, if they know that there's this kind of, this has been mythological drift, if things have been exaggerated, why then, especially experiencing that persecution, seeing their friends die in that kind of setting, do they continue to go on and do it?

Yes.

I think at minimum, whatever's going on, they, like, you look at some of these secular historians and they look at the data and they say, whatever's going on, the disciples believe something happened.

Yeah, I agree.

That they saw something.

Of course.

And so I just think that the explanations of the alternatives of that actually happening are insufficient insofar as how they actually explain the data.

Do you have any doubt that,

Oh, of course.

Okay.

So you have at least even 1% doubt.

Oh, definitely.

And I think especially when there are times of things that are far more existential than historical, when times of like struggle and pain and suffering, and I look at the world and I look at how messy it is,

children who die young, people who are abused, all of these things, there are moments where I think, how could there be a good God?

I mean, I'm not immune to doubt.

And the interesting thing that I find about the Bible is that the Bible is very open to the God of the Bible being open to us coming to him with our doubts.

Now, one third of the book of Psalms, which is like right in the middle of the Bible, this kind of poetic literature, if you want to call it that,

are sometimes referred to as the lament or the complaint Psalms.