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>>Ankerberg: Alright. Today there is a debate a raging debate between Jesusanity and Christianity.
And one of the kind of tricky little things that they are using is how they use the word
early and earliest, okay? Explain that. We only have got about a minute left.
>>Bock: Early basically means anywhere from the 1st to 4th century, usually the 2nd 3rd
or 4th century. Earliest means the 1st century. So you get statements like “early Christianity
was diverse, or there were alternative Christianities” which technically translated means, in the
2nd, 3rd and 4th century we have evidence of this variety, but in our earliest texts
we don’t. What Jesusanity people are claiming is what we see in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th century,
we are going to also argue was going on in the first, even though we don’t have good
hard evidence for that.
>>Ankerberg: Yeah, and so the fact is in terms of Christianity you have got hard evidence,
hard documents, and for the other guys they are projecting it from the 2nd century back
into the first…..
>>Bock: And what they are arguing is that material has been suppressed; that the earliest
materials have been suppressed.
>>Wallace But there is no evidence for it.
>>Bock: Yeah. Suppression covers a multitude of sins. You don’t have anything for it,
you actually don’t know if it goes back that far. And more importantly you can show
from the content of the theology that it is unlikely to go back that far.
>>Wallace And the other side of it is, we do have,… the earliest documents are all
these Christian documents. I mean, we have proof that these documents come from the 1st
century.