Quiet Time Notes

Notes from my daily Quiet Times with God

NT Authors Telling the Truth (part II)

March 6th, 2025
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3. New Testament Writers Left in the Demanding Saying of Jesus

Wrote down challenging commands that goes contrrary of many who wrote things down

• Do not resist an evil person
• Pray for and love your enemies
• Do not judge unless our own lives are in order
• Lustful thoughts are commiting adultery in heart

These are not commands that would impose on themselves

Who can live up to these standards in the new testament? Only a perfect person.

4. New Testament Writers Carefully Distinguished Jesus' words from their own

5. New Testament Writers Included Uncomfortable Resurrection Event Details

• Burial of Jesus - Recorded Joseph of Arimathea helping out (why put a memer of the Sanhedrin in a positive light?
• First Witnesses - Mary Magdalene did not have the best past 
• Coversion of Priests - large number of priests were converted, if not true, it could be easily disputed - Acts 6:7
• Explaination of the Jews - shared opposing views

 

 

Key Phrase: New Testament writers wrote down challenging commands that goes contrary to what they wanted

Notes from: I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Frank Turek.