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More Than a Carpenter - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "The Father and I are 'one'"; Jesus and God holding onto #1
      - Jesus' self-incrimination is evidence; handcuffs of Jesus
  - - - Liars don't spread like wildfire, know prophecies about themselves, self-incriminate, and create the most virtuous way of living in the world; Jesus on trial with fingers crossed and scroll, zoom out to wildfire on city
      - To invent Jesus would take more than Jesus; puppeteer/toymaker
      - If he were a liar, he would be devil, misleading people for eternity; devil
    - - Lucid Jesus; business suit with child on shoulders
  - - - Athiests think religion poisons the world; it causes air planes to crash into buildings
    - - To be athiest you can't trust the world's order, which is unscientific
- - - - NT has over 20,000 manuscripts
      - Written between 40 and 80 AD, likely 50 to 75
      - Gnostic gospels were written at least 3 generations after the fact (125 to 250 AD) and are not considered reliable
      - Gospels were written within one generation; not enough time to be orally passed down/devolve into a myth
      - Followers of Rabbis held their words in high esteem, memorizing what they said to a high degree of accuracy
        cistern and drop of water
      - The NT is the single most reliable document in all of history
      - Spelling errors account for 75% of differences in translation, and synonyms account for the majority of the rest
      - By far most historical documents we have were written centuries after the fact: Aristotle was 343 BC and the manuscripts we have are from 1100 AD – 1400 years after the fact
    - - You have to go in holding that the writings are true, rather than false
    - - External records back the Gospel accounts up (disciple of John)
        
        Greek, non-Christian, Jewish accounts of the Crucifixion, the deity of Jesus Christ, the empty tomb, Jesus' brother James, and the resurrection
  - - - Most of the Apostles faced torturous deaths