Ep. 392 Retired Trial Attorney Jonathan Menn Explains Why Christianity Is True
Jonathan Menn is a retired trial attorney who earned an MDiv and has started a ministry equipping pastors in East Africa. His latest book, Is Christianity True?, covers three main topics: 1) the trustworthiness of the Bible, 2) the incoherence of naturalism, and 3) the problem of evil.
Mentioned in the Episode and Other Links of Interest:
- The YouTube version of this interview.
- The ECLEA (Equipping Church Leaders — East Africa) website.
- The Amazon links for Menn’s books, Is Christianity True? and Biblical Eschatology.
- Stephen Meyer on the God Hypothesis at Cambridge.
- The link for Monetary-Metals.com.
- Help support the Bob Murphy Show.
About the author, Robert
Christian and economist, Chief Economist at infineo, and Senior Fellow with the Mises Institute.
You guys keep saying that nobody would die for something they knew to be a lie, but how exactly did you come to think anybody died for it? Where are you getting this information? This is never answered by anybody.
It is believed in church histories that all but one of the original apostles was martyred. Eg: this article. I couldn’t independently tell you the confidence we should have in those accounts, if that’s what you’re asking me.
The execution of the apostle James is recorded in Acts 12:1-2. Here is another article (in addition to the one cited by Bob Murphy) concerning the deaths of the apostles: https://overviewbible.com/how-did-the-apostles-die/.