After studying the authenticity of the four Gsopels, Pastor Nate Harlan and the class at Trinity Evangelical turn to look at the authenticity of the rest of the New Testament.
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Lies People Tell About the Gospels
They aren’t reliable! The church changed them! They contradict each other! Pastor Nate Harlan and the class at Trinity Evangelical Church discuss these and other challenges that people make against the Gospels.
Gospel authenticity and authorship
Follow along with our lightning round through the history of the church and its undrrstanding of the canon of Scripture.
The critical importance of the Gospels
The world pretends that it is objective when it questions the historicity of the Gospel. The class at Trinity Evangelical dissects the faulty assumptions hidden in the questioning.
The Gospels and Their Reliability
Is it certain that the four books of the gospel — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John — are reliable? When were they written? What about other books that claim to be gospels? Pastor Nate Harlan leads this discussion.
The covenantal structure of the New Testament
In this family study, Pastor Nate Harlan and the congregation at Trinity Evangelical Church discuss the nature of covenants and how the New Testament is structured.
The old covenant and our need for Christ
In this family study, Pastor Nate Harlan talks with the class about the Levitical sacrificial system and how it was made obsolete by the atonement of Christ for His people.
The heart of the old covenant
Even though God generously gave Israel the sacrificial system so they could stay in covenant with Him, they were not able to. The chief lesson is that we are incapbable of meeting God’s standard of faithfulness, so we need Christ to meet the standard for us.
The continuity between the covenants
After spending some time discussing alternate “scriptures” such as the Book of Mormon and the Quran, Pastor Nate Harlan and the class looks at the continuity between the old and new covenants.
Why do we believe the New Testament?
Pastor Nate Harlan leads our family study at Trinity on the simple, but deep, question of why we Christians believe the New Testament.