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Announcement

Announcement. Please Xerox the new readings (Third floor of the library) Our next Long Test (Oral Exam): March 7 till 11 No Lecture on January 27 Use the 1 hr and 20 minutes to do a group work and to plan for the project. Assignment: (Submission Feb. 1)

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  1. Announcement • Please Xerox the new readings (Third floor of the library) • Our next Long Test (Oral Exam): March 7 till 11 • No Lecture on January 27 • Use the 1 hr and 20 minutes to do a group work and to plan for the project. • Assignment: (Submission Feb. 1) • Read William Lane Craig, On Guard: Defending your Faith with Reason and Precision (Colorado Springs: David Cook, 2010) pp. 183-193 • Answer this question and submit a at least a on page written report: Why can we say the Gospels give a historically accurate picture of Jesus? What are you disagreements with the article?(Group report)

  2. New Readings • Yes or No? Straight Answers to Tough Questions about Christianity, by Peter Kreeft • The Bible: Fact or Myth? pp 67-78 • Who is Jesus?, Dialog Six, pp 43-50 • The Resurrection, Dialog Seven, pp 51-56 • Donald Senior, Jesus: A Gospel Potrait(Makati:St. Pauls, 1992) pp. 1-45 • Knowing Jesus, by Donald Senior pp 7-25 • Aric C. Dy ed., Within New Eyes: The World as seen by the Preachers of the Word (Quezon City: Jesuit Communication Foundation, 2001) pp. 63-71 • William Lane Craig, On Guard: Defending your Faith with Reason and Precision (Colorado Springs: David Cook, 2010) pp. 183-216

  3. Plan for the next few months • Plan for the next group consultations • Plan for the Group reports (Feb. 22, 24, Mar. 1, 3,15, 17) • Report on an inspiring story • Report on a human experience using a story in the Gospels /Comparison on human story and a story in the Gospels (i.e. TV series, Movie, A true story)

  4. Passing on the Faith: Scripture and Tradition

  5. Important Perspective Questions? Truth

  6. New outline for the next two weeks • Passing on the Faith: Scripture and Tradition • Knowing Jesus Christ • The Main Message: His life, death and resurrection • The main message in Scriptures • The Centrality of the Resurrection • The Extraordinary Success of Christianity • The Source of Our Stories: The Gospels   • Three Stages of Gospel Development • Jesus and his Disciples • Disciples and their Community • Evangelist (Gospel Writers) and their Community • What are the Gospels? • Not Biographies—Faith Testimonies • From Faith To Faith • A Privileged Source • First Source • Normative—Standard • Why do we trust these four Gospels and not the other gospels?: • Are the Gospels reliable even if they have internal inconsistencies? • Passing on the Faith: Are the Gospels reliable even if they were written two thousand years ago?

  7. Knowing Jesus

  8. Knowing Jesus? NotonlyInformation Relationship LifeChanging

  9. Knowing Jesus

  10. The main message: His life, death and resurrection • The main message in Scriptures • Old Testament • Gen. 3:14-15 • Isa 53:4-6 • Gospels • Mat 16:13-17 • Mk. 1:14-15 • Luk 11:18-20 • Joh 14:1-14

  11. The main message in Scriptures • The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all cattle, and above all wild animals; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." • (Gen 3:14-15)

  12. The main message in Scriptures • Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. • (Isa 53:4-6)

  13. The main message in Scriptures • Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesare'a Philip'pi, he asked his disciples, "Who do men say that the Son of man is?" And they said, "Some say John the Baptist, others say Eli'jah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets." He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. • (Mat 16:13-17)

  14. The main message in Scriptures • Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God, and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel." • (Mar 1:14-15)

  15. The main message in Scriptures • And if Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul. And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges. But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. • (Luk 11:18-20)

  16. The main message in Scriptures • Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me. • (Joh 14:6)

  17. Break

  18. (Digression) Knowing Jesus : An invitation to an experiment!!! Pray!

  19. The main message: His life, death and resurrection • The Centrality of the Resurrection

  20. The Centrality of the Resurrection • In a profound sense, Christianity without the resurrection is not Christianity without its final chapter. It is not Christianity at all. (Gerard O’Collins)

  21. The Centrality of the Resurrection • 1Co 15:12-15 • (12) Now if Christ is preached as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? • (13) But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; • (14) if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. • (15) We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified of God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.

  22. The Centrality of the Resurrection TheResurrection God=Everythingispossible Myth ('made up') Hallucination

  23. The Centrality of the Resurrection • (satirical speech if the disciples lied about the resurrection) “ Let us band together.” the speaker proclaims, “ to invent all the miracles and resurrection appearances which we never saw and let us carry the sham even to death! Why not die for nothing? Why dislike torture and whipping inflicted for no good reason? Let us go out to all the nations and overthrow their institutions and denounce their gods.” (Eusebius of Caesarea, quoted in Knowing the Truth about the Resurrection by William Craig)

  24. Christianity : They Believed in Jesus Christ Their Claims were False Their claims were True They did not know Jesus’ claims were False They knew his claims were False Christianity is True They made a deliberate Misrepresentation They were sincerely Deluded Reject Accept They were liars They were lunatics They were hypocrites They were on the side of the Devil Myth ('made up') They were Fools for dying for it!

  25. The Extraordinary Success of Christianity • Here is one of the most surprising development in history. As we have suggested, from one whose public career was no more than three years, who wrote no book, …who seemingly gave little thought to a continuing organization, and who died in apparent frustration emerged a religion..

  26. The Extraordinary Success of Christianity • …that captured one of the major centers of civilization, developed an organization whose main features have been perpetuated into the twentieth century, ..gave definitions to its basic convictions which continues to be normative, and have modified substantially the culture which was its environment.( Kenneth Latourette, Christianity Through the Ages)

  27. The Extraordinary Success of Christianity How do we verify that religion and all this about Christianity isn't a fictional work made by some random person in the past?

  28. The Source of Our Stories: The Gospels Story The Source of the Story (the bible)

  29. Plan for the next few months • Plan for the next group consultations • Plan for the Group reports (Feb. 22, 24, Mar. 1, 3,15, 17) • Report on an inspiring story • Report on a human experience using a story in the Gospels /Comparison on human story and a story in the Gospels (i.e. TV series, Movie, A true story)

  30. The End

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