About this episode

Pastor Joby Martin and Denny Thompson discuss the evidence for Jesus with Dr. Jeremiah Johnston, exploring historical artifacts and manuscripts related to the resurrection.

Pastor Joby Martin and Denny Thompson sit down with Dr. Jeremiah Johnston, New York Times bestselling author of The Jesus Discoveries, president of the Christian Thinkers Society, and one of the world's leading scholars on the resurrection of Jesus. He earned his PhD at Oxford studying the resurrection. Jeremiah did not just talk about the evidence. He put it on the table. The oldest fragment of the New Testament. A replica of the whip that took a third of Jesus's blood. A crown of thorns cut in Jerusalem the week before, from the same tree the Ark of the Covenant was built from. Coins of every man who tried to kill Jesus. And a real first century crucifixion nail, bent and rusted from use, that left Denny speechless. Then he walks through the physics of the Shroud of Turin: an image one fifth the width of a human hair, created by 34 billion watts of energy in a fraction of a billionth of a second, that science still cannot replicate. Joby, Denny, and Jeremiah talk about how we have 5,800 manuscripts of the New Testament, the miraculous healing of Jeremiah's son Abel, why you are the pastor of your home, why faith was never meant to be faith in faith, and the moment a box marked…

People in this episode

Hosts: Joby Martin, Denny Thompson

Guest: Jeremiah Johnston

Topics covered

• evidence for Jesus
• resurrection
• Christianity
• faith
• manuscripts
• healing

Keywords

• Jesus
• resurrection
• New Testament
• Shroud of Turin
• Christianity
• faith
• healing
• manuscripts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Christian Thinkers Society

Books & works: The Jesus Discoveries, Shroud of Turin

Places: Oxford, Jerusalem

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