How difficult is it to discern the evidence for Christianity?

One of the recurring themes in Joe Rogan's program with Wesley Huff was the idea that it's so difficult to discern the truth about some of the issues they discussed, including the evidence for Christianity. Rogan repeatedly brought the subject up, but I don't think he ever put it in the form of a question.

When that kind of sentiment comes up, a good way to respond is to mention one or more counterexamples. It's not difficult to discern Jesus' prominence in history, for example, which increases the plausibility of his being a source of Divine revelation. Or you could mention the significance of hostile corroboration of Jesus' resurrection, which is something unusual and widely acknowledged (James' claim to have seen Jesus risen from the dead, Paul's claim, non-Christian corroboration of the empty tomb, etc.). Or bring up some events involved in prophecy fulfillment that are widely accepted (Jesus' death by crucifixion, the timing of the crucifixion, the Romans' destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, etc.). For further discussion of issues like these, see here, among other relevant posts in our archives.

Another point worth making is that people give a lot of time, attention, and other resources to their general education, their career, sports, music, and other things in life. Why think they don't have the resources needed to adequately discern the issues relevant to Christianity?

Videos On Christmas And Paganism

Wesley Huff and Michael Jones recently put out videos arguing against the supposed pagan nature of Christmas.

What methods are used to date ancient manuscripts?

Wesley Huff Q&A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIwwJMZt5qE

How early are the New Testament books?

Why do Mark and John appear to differ on the time of the crucifixion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mRNdGnQSOo

OT "slavery"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLcvJsTQrTg

Ending of Mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVurW_jhp68

Joe Rogan's biblical illiteracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fownDeTsw0Y

How Do The Dead Sea Scroll Forgeries Impact Christianity?

Trusting the Bible

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a21fbb649fc2b2179ec1ac4/t/5e21b6e9599a244d6bc5820f/1579267817646/WTBC+-+SS+Study+Handouts+1.pdf

DSS forgeries

Wesley Huff

Because I have had a number of people contact me and have been seeing others ask similar questions: yes the Dead Sea Scrolls from the Museum of the Bible are fake. However, this has NO BEARING ON THE RELEVANT ISSUES CONCERNING THE TEXT OF THE BIBLE.

The manuscripts the Museum of the Bible possessed were very fragmentary in nature with little to no text on them to begin with. As far as I can figure out they contained no relevant textual variation from the Masoretic Text or comparative sections in other Dead Sea Scrolls. They were a minor contribution to the picture of the overall text compared to the nearly 100,000 authentic manuscripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls that reside at the Israel Museum.

Did Jesus speak Greek?

https://www.wesleyhuff.com/blog/2019/12/16/did-jesus-speak-greek

What's the doctrine of the Trinity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptwb4L_Sb4

The modern Nicea myth

https://www.wesleyhuff.com/blog/2020/1/13/the-council-of-nicaea-and-the-books-of-the-bible

The genealogies of Jesus

https://www.wesleyhuff.com/blog/2019/12/16/9isw5vxv8ju5aj6gk5y92nqpdvto57

Book me

https://www.wesleyhuff.com/new-page

https://www.wesleyhuff.com/donate

The books that didn't make the Bible

Christian infographics

https://www.wesleyhuff.com/infographics

Old age app

https://p2c.com/students/articles/what-we-can-learn-from-faceapps-oldage-challenge/