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New Testament scholar Jeremiah J. Johnston is on a mission to explore archeological evidence for Jesus. Johnston, an expert on the famed Shroud of Turin, believes various findings can help corroborate the biblical narrative.<\/p>\n
His new book, \u201cThe Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face with Jesus,\u201d explores \u201cdiscoveries that support the authenticity of the Bible, the resurrection of Jesus, and the reasonableness of Christianity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnston told CBN News some Christians don\u2019t necessarily believe they need outside evidence for the Bible.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s many great Christians out there \u2026 they walk up to me in our events and around the world, and they say, \u2018Hey, I don\u2019t need all that evidence. I have the Bible. \u2026 I have my faith,’\u201d he said. \u201cWell, I want to make this very clear. There would not have been a single New Testament book written had Jesus Christ not evidentially shown Himself to be alive physically, bodily, after He was crucified by the Roman Empire.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ultimately, Johnston said it\u2019s important for believers to recognize this sentiment and not ignore the significance of such powerful evidence. He looked to specific areas of the Bible to drive home this fact.<\/p>\n
\u201cRemember how Luke opens his Gospels,\u201d he said. \u201cHe\u2019s literally presenting the case for Jesus through many infallible proofs. Even Acts 1:3 said Jesus proved himself to be alive through many convincing proofs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnston continued, \u201cAnd, so, it\u2019s exciting to us as Christians that we can actually appeal to evidence for our faith for the reason that we believe. And remember, we don\u2019t ever have faith in faith or faith in a feeling. Faith is always defined by its object.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Christians, this is the \u201cresurrected Lord Jesus Christ,\u201d he noted. Johnston said there\u2019s incredible evidence pointing to Jesus and noted that he breaks much of it down in \u201cThe Jesus Discoveries.\u201d<\/p>\n
Listen to the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cOur evidence for Jesus is a lot better than Alexander the Great,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot better than Caesar crossing the Rubicon.\u201d<\/p>\n One such piece of evidence is the Jesus Cup, a ceramic bowl found in 2008 that refers to Jesus as an \u201cenchanter\u201d and \u201cmagician.\u201d The cup dates back to AD 50 and holds spiritual significance.<\/p>\n \u201cThis could be the earliest incised words of the name of Jesus from any artifact,\u201d Johnston said. \u201cThis is before Scripture is written, and what\u2019s amazing is this tells us that Jesus was popular as a miracle worker and an exorcist.\u201d<\/p>\n Find out more about this discovery and nine others in\u00a0\u201cThe Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face with Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n Please sign up for\u00a0Faithwire\u2019s daily newsletter\u00a0and download the\u00a0CBN News app\u00a0to stay up-to-date with the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New Testament scholar Jeremiah J. Johnston is on a mission to explore archeological evidence for Jesus. Johnston, an expert on the famed Shroud of Turin, believes various findings can help corroborate the biblical narrative. His new book, \u201cThe Jesus Discoveries: 10 Historic Finds That Bring Us Face-to-Face with Jesus,\u201d explores \u201cdiscoveries that support the authenticity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[9056,976,481,6190,474,1408,475],"class_list":{"0":"post-27440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jesus","8":"tag-archeological","9":"tag-finds","10":"tag-jesus","11":"tag-prove","12":"tag-shroud","13":"tag-stunning","14":"tag-turin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}