Jeff Bell
1 min readApr 11, 2022

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Sorry these arguments are tired and not very convincing. A few quick points: if you are going to say verses from Isaiah 53 don’t match well cite them and explain why. The “out of Egypt” reference is right it is clearly related to the Exodus. But that is the point of Matthew—this verse is not just to point to the birth of Jesus, but Matthew presents Jesus as both a new Moses (the law giver), and the new representative of faithful Israel—this is actually basic Christian theology. Lastly, all four Gospels do not identify their authors, and everyone admits the titles were added later, however all four were universally and very early on linked to the four names identified with each gospel. Finally, that you think there is very little evidence to verify Christ’s existence is laughable as no credible historian buys that, and that pretty much the NT was written within a generation or two Jesus ministry—which is closer evidence to the source than we have for countless other figures in history and yet don’t discount their existence. You can argue against Christianity, but you shouldn’t use flimsy arguments to suggest it’s foundation is flimsy.

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Jeff Bell
Jeff Bell

Written by Jeff Bell

Minister of Trentside Baptist, Bobcaygeon Ontario

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