Wesley Huff

couple of millennia.

So looking at some of those manuscripts that actually can trace back to the actual timeframe of Jesus and answering questions like, is what we have now what the original authors wrote back then?

So I think there's a historical question to it.

And I, in my own personal investigation, genuinely think that the evidence, the publicly available evidence is

gets us back to not only the time frame of Jesus, but to early eyewitness testimony that proclaims that this first century Jewish itinerant rabbi who was walking the dusty streets of first century made these claims.

And then there is sufficient evidence to say that

He predicted his own death and resurrection and did it.

Yeah, so that is a question of historical reliability.

So there are a couple different ways we could go about it.

First, we have four biographical accounts of Jesus' life, which is very unusual.

So we call them the Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

Those aren't actually our earliest source material for the life of Jesus.

That comes in the person of Paul.

Paul is actually writing before the Gospel accounts.

And he is someone who was hostile originally to the Christian message.

And he's persecuting Christians.

He comes along and he has this radical conversion experience when he's traveling to Damascus, where he says he's literally thrown off a horse.

He hears God's voice and it's Jesus.

And he says, Paul, why are you persecuting me?

And then he writes these things about his experience and then ultimately goes and connects with