<p>Free sharing permitted under the Creative Commons <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/">BY-NC-ND 3.0 (US)</a> license.</p>

Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Subodh Pandit

Is Jesus The Only? Q&A

It's time now for questions but it's also a time if anybody would like the book Most of what I have thrown on the screen are in the book It's difficult to grab so much of stuff at 1 sitting.

So it is in the book, like I said, whoever will help.

You can, if you want, pick the books, but in the meantime, let's close formally our session.

We are now going to have the Q&A session.

The question is, at What exact time did Jesus come back to life?

The question is, at what exact time did Jesus come back to life?

It's an interesting question, but Personally, I don't know.

All I know that he rested on that seventh day, and by the time early morning of the first day came, he was risen.

I have no idea when exactly it took place.

The fact is, it doesn't matter in 1 sense.

It is very difficult to ask questions because everything is so simply clear and clarified.

So, I am just saying that it is just, there is no really room for argument or questioning because the point is so direct and so, it is not, you cannot really argue with it.

So, your comment is that really there may not be too many questions because it goes from 1 step to another and it is reasonable and you make a conclusion that makes good sense.

This is the reason why I am a one-man mission to the world.

When you finally come to the truth of a matter, where the weight of evidence points very strongly, it is difficult to hold yourself back.

If they don't pay, I have to pay my way there.

And my focused mission is the secular university campuses.

Because that is where atheism and evolution comes like a tidal wave.

And every believer is pushed with his back against a wall, cannot do anything about the jeers and the taunts that he faces and he gives in.

I've also seen something else coming to you, that when this message comes to the heart, that student becomes unstoppable.

Because this is not to do with just a belief now, my friends.

Faith is not something vague and nebulous like a cloud.

Faith is a form of conviction and a conviction must be based on evidence.

And when you place the evidence, You're not telling the person to have faith, you're just giving them a basis to have faith.

And when you have a basis to your faith, believe me, your faith is strong.

In your secular audiences, what seems to be the most frequently asked question?

There are, actually there are A spectrum of them, for instance, 1 of the usual ones is, well the Bible was written, but you know, some people formed the New Testament.

Not God, because the Apocrypha is also there, and how do we know that that set of books are the inspired word of God?

That's 1 of the questions they often ask.

Because if that's not answered, then all this story, All we are saying is hoax.

But when you go back to it being a historical piece of literature, which has marks of being historical, then it's very difficult to throw it away.

How do you answer the question most frequently asked?

Because this is obviously a non-secular setting.

Well, the question is, What was the most common question you had in a secular setting?

And I said the most common 1 was how do we know that the Bible is actually the composite of these books because a group put them together.

There is the apocrypha too and some other gospels.

It is actually the question of what we scholars call inspiration.

The word inspiration is the question of having something breathed, and that's how it is supposed to be.

How do we know that These guys were influenced, not somebody else.

Now the common idea is that there's a bunch of people who got together sometime in the third and fourth century and they decided which books will form, say, the New Testament, for instance.

The truth of the matter really is that that group did not choose.

That group put together what the historical community had already chosen for hundreds of years.

Now we have to ask whether the historical community, which is mainly the Jews, whether they were okay in choosing these people.

We don't want Isaiah, we want somebody else.

So Can we ask the Jews, how come you chose Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and Daniel and not some of the other guys?

Because in your own Old Testament, you have prophets, and some of them are false prophets.

But I do know that the community accepted these people as the true prophets of God not only because they chose them but because they were able to choose others who were not prophets of God.

Not only was that community able to choose which was the prophet of God because the whole community accepted, for instance, Isaiah and Jeremiah, this is the word of God.

And somebody else, no, this is not the word of God.

I'm not exactly sure how did they know, not know, not know, but in their own writings, for instance, in the apocryphal period, the 400 years in between the Old Testament and the New Testament, you have the Maccabees, for instance.

In the writing, which is a historical piece of writing, the Maccabees, you hear 1 of them clearly writing and saying, the voice of God has been stilled among us.

Friends, there were prophets in those days, but they were not counted voice of God so they knew who they would place their vote on they knew, Whatever the criteria, there are some criteria, for instance, the person must say that this is the word of God he must be able to stand up and say, because there was a punishment on pain of death if you say this is the word of God and they find out it is not.

So they had to be really careful to say this is the word of God.

So 1 of the criteria was this person must say this is the word of God I am bringing to you.

You can't be running around on the gambling table and saying I'm bringing the word of God to you.

Once you say something as a prophet, if it has predictive value, it must come true.

And so many of these prophets made prophecies which were within the few years that they were alive and say, hey, there it is.

So they knew that he was speaking the truth.

So there were many of these criteria, but it was the community that decided, the historical community over hundreds of years, that decided which were the books to be put in.

This committee just looked at all of those and compiled them.

Back to Menu

Is Jesus The Only? Q&A

Transcript

Sponsor

Recorded

Sound Doctrine