# What Skeptics Want Christians to Know with Sean McDowell, and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 24 Jul 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (07/24/26), Hank is joined in the second segment by Sean McDowell to discuss his article, “What Skeptics Want Christians to Know” in the Christian Research Journal. Hank also answers the following questions: Why did God not give the Holy Spirit in Old Testament times? Michelle Jean (0:51) Can we know the New Testament was written prior to 70 A.D.? How does this fit into eschatology? Michael - Kansas City, MO (4:43)

## Transcript

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[0:50] Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Randian. Before we go to our callers,
[0:53] Speaker 2: a quick Facebook question, This one from Michelle Jean who
[0:58] Speaker 2: asks why didn't God give the Holy Spirit in Old
[1:03] Speaker 2: Testament times. The answer to that question is quite simply this,
[1:08] Speaker 2: he did. The Spirit dwelt in Joshua. We read that
[1:13] Speaker 2: in number twenty seven God put his Holy Spirit within
[1:18] Speaker 2: Moses Isaiah sixty three. The Holy Spirit as a personal
[1:25] Speaker 2: presence has and always will be in the midst of
[1:30] Speaker 2: God's people. So when Jesus talked about the coming of
[1:34] Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. He was not implying that
[1:38] Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit was not already there, but that the
[1:42] Speaker 2: Holy Spirit was to come in the sense of empowering
[1:47] Speaker 2: or in filling. So I would say it's all right
[1:50] Speaker 2: to say that the Holy Spirit came from Heaven at Pentecost,
[1:54] Speaker 2: but not in the sense of location, rather in the
[1:58] Speaker 2: sense of a special manifestation of His presence and his power.
[2:04] Speaker 2: And of course, one of my favorite passages in the
[2:07] Speaker 2: whole of the Old Testament involves the words of King
[2:13] Speaker 2: David in Psalm fifty one, do not cast me from
[2:17] Speaker 2: your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore
[2:24] Speaker 2: to me the joy of your salvation, and grant a
[2:27] Speaker 2: willing spirit to sustain me. We in the New Testament
[2:33] Speaker 2: are prophets and priests. We are a royal priesthood, and
[2:40] Speaker 2: therefore we are called and designated for a special purpose
[2:45] Speaker 2: in the province of God, and the Holy Spirit empowers
[2:50] Speaker 2: us in that purpose, just as the Holy Spirit empowered
[2:58] Speaker 2: the saints of the Old Testament. One of the issues
[3:02] Speaker 2: that we deal with so often at the Christian Research
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[4:43] Speaker 2: caller today, Michael listening in Kansas City, Missouri. Hi, Michael, Oh, thank.
[4:49] Speaker 3: You doing good? Her? Are you fantastic? I am calling
[4:53] Speaker 3: uh As. I'm trying to figure out how to ask
[4:55] Speaker 3: this question because maybe it's two part. One, I believe,
[4:58] Speaker 3: I believe, like you, dud All, the New Testament was
[5:02] Speaker 3: written before seventy a d. And I'm wanting to know
[5:05] Speaker 3: information on how to back that up or get information
[5:09] Speaker 3: to support that. And then two, how does that fit
[5:11] Speaker 3: into eschatology?
[5:14] Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think it's really important to realize
[5:16] Speaker 2: that all of the prophecies in the Bible were completed
[5:21] Speaker 2: by eight seventy. Now what are we awaiting today? From
[5:25] Speaker 2: an eschatological standpoint? We are awaiting the second coming of
[5:30] Speaker 2: our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, or as Hebrews puts it,
[5:34] Speaker 2: the second peering of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,
[5:38] Speaker 2: when he forever does away with sin and satan, he
[5:43] Speaker 2: puts all things to right, He establishes a new heaven
[5:46] Speaker 2: and new Earth, wherein dwells righteousness. No more death, morning, crying,
[5:50] Speaker 2: or pain, for the old order things has passed away.
[5:52] Speaker 2: Behold all things have become new, and therefore the kinds
[5:58] Speaker 2: of prophecies that people in imp into the future are
[6:01] Speaker 2: prophecies that have been fulfilled in the past. Now, again,
[6:06] Speaker 2: this is not in concord with either futurism or partial preterism,
[6:12] Speaker 2: both of them I have trouble with in that I
[6:14] Speaker 2: think that the futurists oftentimes are interpreting the Bible with
[6:18] Speaker 2: a newspaper in one hand the Bible in the other,
[6:22] Speaker 2: and the partial predists do the same thing with a
[6:25] Speaker 2: history book. But here's the bottom line. I think it's
[6:28] Speaker 2: important for us to recognize that the Bible was finished
[6:32] Speaker 2: by eighty seventy because if an autograph is written hundreds
[6:36] Speaker 2: of years after the event it records, it is likely
[6:40] Speaker 2: to be far less reliable than if it's written early.
[6:45] Speaker 2: And thus it would stand to reason that the Gospel
[6:47] Speaker 2: of Judas, which is carbon dated to around eighty two eighty,
[6:51] Speaker 2: is less reliable than a gospel such as the Gospel
[6:54] Speaker 2: of John, which was most certainly written prior.
[6:58] Speaker 3: And I agree with you on that, but I have
[7:00] Speaker 3: quite a few different study Bibles just for research, and
[7:03] Speaker 3: seeing the majority of him, I'll say, well, they could
[7:06] Speaker 3: be written before seventy AD. But a lot of scholars
[7:09] Speaker 3: say in the ninety ADS, and I know it's your legacy.
[7:13] Speaker 3: Bible says no before seventy eighty.
[7:15] Speaker 2: Yeah, And a lot of those scholars are changing their mind.
[7:17] Speaker 2: For let me give you an example. The late liberal
[7:21] Speaker 2: scholar John A. T. Robinson. He's the author of redating
[7:25] Speaker 2: the New Testament. He was compelled by the evidence to
[7:30] Speaker 2: rethink and this, by the way, is a liberal scholar.
[7:34] Speaker 2: He was compelled by the evidence to rethink late dating paradigms.
[7:40] Speaker 2: His research led him to contend that all of sacred
[7:45] Speaker 2: Scripture was completed prior to the fall of Jerusalem. And
[7:49] Speaker 2: he actually said, one of the oddest facts about the
[7:52] Speaker 2: New Testament is that on any showing the single most datable,
[7:59] Speaker 2: the single most climactic event of the period was the
[8:03] Speaker 2: fall of Jerusalem in eighty seventy. With it, you had
[8:06] Speaker 2: the collapse of institutional Judaism based on the Temple, and
[8:11] Speaker 2: it is never once mentioned as a past fact. And
[8:16] Speaker 2: his redating is not just a dogmatic assertion, it's a
[8:20] Speaker 2: defensible argument. Look, if you were writing about New York
[8:28] Speaker 2: today and you're giving a history of New York and
[8:33] Speaker 2: you make no mention of the destruction of the twin
[8:35] Speaker 2: Towers of the World Trade Center at the hands of
[8:38] Speaker 2: terrorists on September eleventh, two thousand and one, you would think,
[8:43] Speaker 2: my goodness, you must have been writing before that, not
[8:48] Speaker 2: after that. It is inconceivable that you would write a
[8:53] Speaker 2: thesis on the future of terrorism in America and failed
[8:57] Speaker 2: to mention the Manhattan mass occur if you're writing after
[9:01] Speaker 2: the fact. But I think there are even more compelling evidences,
[9:05] Speaker 2: including the fact that Jesus makes the most apocalyptic of
[9:11] Speaker 2: all imaginable prophecies. He says the temple, which gave the
[9:17] Speaker 2: Jews their sociological and spiritual significance, was going to be destroyed,
[9:23] Speaker 2: along with the city that they loved dearly, the city
[9:29] Speaker 2: that gave them their significance. This was going to be destroyed.
[9:33] Speaker 2: And then the prophecy is fulfilled in my new detail,
[9:37] Speaker 2: and no one takes notice. It's never mentioned unthinkable.
[9:41] Speaker 3: And I haven't I've got your apocalypt Code, I haven't
[9:44] Speaker 3: read it yet, but I don't know. Is there anything
[9:46] Speaker 3: you've read and that would help me further my knowledge
[9:49] Speaker 3: about this?
[9:49] Speaker 2: Well, I've laid this out in the Apocalypse Code, and
[9:52] Speaker 2: I've laid it out and even more detail in my
[9:54] Speaker 2: book Has God Spoken, where I deal not only with
[9:58] Speaker 2: New Testament scholars, and I mean, I think this is
[10:01] Speaker 2: incredible that John at Robinson is one of them, because
[10:03] Speaker 2: he was a liberal scholar, and liberal scholars by and
[10:06] Speaker 2: large like to date the New Testament as late as
[10:09] Speaker 2: they can. And yet he redated the New Testament based
[10:13] Speaker 2: on looking at the evidence critically. And the same thing
[10:17] Speaker 2: has happened with H. Dodd, the esteem New Testament scholar,
[10:21] Speaker 2: who also decided that the evidence presented to him was
[10:26] Speaker 2: pretty compelling. So people that are truly open minded about this,
[10:30] Speaker 2: I think are changing their mind.
[10:33] Speaker 3: Well a good deal. Wellank, I appreciate all the work
[10:36] Speaker 3: you're doing out there and my prayers, and I support
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[10:41] Speaker 3: just keep up the great work.
[10:43] Speaker 2: Hey, thank you, appreciate it all. Right, have blessed day,
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[15:09] Speaker 2: Thank very much. Randy and Sean McDowell's written an article
[15:12] Speaker 2: for the current edition of the Christian Research Journal titled
[15:14] Speaker 2: what Skeptics Want Christians to Know? And I think the
[15:18] Speaker 2: importance of the article is encapsulated in that it is
[15:23] Speaker 2: an article designed to communicate to Christians that our job
[15:27] Speaker 2: is not about winning arguments. Our job is all about
[15:32] Speaker 2: winning people. So in the process, it's not just debate
[15:38] Speaker 2: points that matter, it's decision points that ultimately make the difference.
[15:44] Speaker 2: And we're talking about a difference now, not just for time,
[15:48] Speaker 2: but a difference for eternity. We have an opportunity to reach.
[15:52] Speaker 2: Are we going to do that or are we simply
[15:55] Speaker 2: going to have a we they siege mentality against the world.
[15:59] Speaker 2: Sewn mcgdall has written the article again. It's titled What
[16:02] Speaker 2: Skeptics Want Christians to Know. It's in the Christian Research
[16:06] Speaker 2: Journal on the web at equipped dot org. Sean McDowell
[16:11] Speaker 2: is a nationally recognized speaker. He has authored many articles
[16:15] Speaker 2: and books, including the co authored book titled is God
[16:19] Speaker 2: Just a Human Invention? And Seventeen Other Questions Raised by
[16:25] Speaker 2: the New Atheists.
[16:26] Speaker 4: Hi, Sean, Hey, Hank, Good to be with you, Bud.
[16:29] Speaker 2: As always, the article I think is extremely important because
[16:35] Speaker 2: you've found out firsthand that if you attempt to reach
[16:40] Speaker 2: as opposed to just win an argument, you have an
[16:44] Speaker 2: opportunity to have a serious dialogue that opens avenues by
[16:49] Speaker 2: which people can in fact be redeemed.
[16:53] Speaker 4: You know, I think that's completely true. It's amazing that
[16:56] Speaker 4: we hear these soundbites in our culture of people just
[17:00] Speaker 4: attacking each other, just really kind of harsh rhetoric, and
[17:04] Speaker 4: we tend to think that people of those different views,
[17:07] Speaker 4: whether it's different political views or religious views, all kind
[17:11] Speaker 4: of think that way. And recently I just decided that
[17:15] Speaker 4: I wanted to go talk to some skeptics personally and
[17:18] Speaker 4: really listen to them and ask them some questions and
[17:21] Speaker 4: kind of sit on the hot seat at one of
[17:24] Speaker 4: their meetings and try to just get to know them,
[17:26] Speaker 4: not nail them with tough questions, although I was able
[17:29] Speaker 4: to ask them some tough questions, but just kind of
[17:32] Speaker 4: put a human face on what it means to be
[17:34] Speaker 4: a Christian, because many of the people that I know
[17:37] Speaker 4: are skeptics really don't have many genuine friends who are
[17:42] Speaker 4: Christians who are thoughtful and who listen to them and
[17:45] Speaker 4: want to share the Gospel in a way that's just
[17:48] Speaker 4: very appropriate to where they're at in life. So I
[17:51] Speaker 4: got to sit down with them and I think you're right.
[17:52] Speaker 4: I was pleasantly surprised at how open many of them
[17:56] Speaker 4: were to just listening to why I believed what I believe.
[18:01] Speaker 2: Is this about having confidence in the truth that we profess.
[18:06] Speaker 2: I mean, so often we don't want to have the
[18:08] Speaker 2: dialogue because we're afraid that we might be exposed. And
[18:13] Speaker 2: a couple of things related to that, I think, Sean,
[18:16] Speaker 2: is that you've found out that when you're on the
[18:18] Speaker 2: cutting edge of evangelism, by putting yourself in that kind
[18:22] Speaker 2: of a circumstance, you're driven into education, which means that
[18:25] Speaker 2: no doubt you were asked some questions that you thought yourself.
[18:28] Speaker 2: You know what, I got to go back and do
[18:29] Speaker 2: some research.
[18:31] Speaker 4: Well, like you, I love to read and I like
[18:33] Speaker 4: to know my stuff, and I'm actually I happen to
[18:36] Speaker 4: be working on a PhD in this stuff. So I
[18:39] Speaker 4: read and study apologetics all the time. But even briefly
[18:43] Speaker 4: before doing this conversation, I thought, boy, do I know
[18:46] Speaker 4: my stuff? Am I ready? So I started reading more books,
[18:49] Speaker 4: I started watching a couple of debates and really preparing myself,
[18:53] Speaker 4: and I realized that, you know, when we have kind
[18:56] Speaker 4: of a goal in front of us, whether it's me
[18:59] Speaker 4: taking my students on apologetic mission trips where it's going
[19:02] Speaker 4: to actually have a conversation at Starbucks with a skeptics,
[19:06] Speaker 4: or going to a skeptics group when there's a goal
[19:08] Speaker 4: out in front, kind of like an athlete who's trained
[19:11] Speaker 4: for a competition. Then it drives us to all of
[19:14] Speaker 4: a sudden really want to study and learn things in
[19:17] Speaker 4: ways that we had before. So I got a little
[19:20] Speaker 4: bit nervous. I it made me pray a little bit more.
[19:23] Speaker 4: And in fact, that day or two before I told
[19:25] Speaker 4: my wife, I thought, Man, I am going to this
[19:27] Speaker 4: house of all these skeptics. What am I doing? And
[19:30] Speaker 4: what have I gotten myself into? And to be honest
[19:33] Speaker 4: with you, Hank, I was just pleasantly surprised at kind
[19:36] Speaker 4: of how prepared I was. I mean, they asked some
[19:39] Speaker 4: good questions, but really just kind of some of the
[19:42] Speaker 4: same questions that you answer all the time on the
[19:46] Speaker 4: Bible answer Man. So I would just say, any Christian
[19:49] Speaker 4: who just reads a few books, reads a couple articles,
[19:52] Speaker 4: reads a Christian researcheral regularly is far more equipped than
[19:56] Speaker 4: they realize to just be in conversation with And I
[20:00] Speaker 4: learned from these skeptics that there's absolutely nothing wrong with
[20:04] Speaker 4: saying I don't know. In fact, they respect it when
[20:07] Speaker 4: we just say, boy, that's a great question, and you've
[20:10] Speaker 4: obviously thought about this. I'm going to have to give
[20:12] Speaker 4: it a little bit more thought. Then it breaks down
[20:14] Speaker 4: some of their stereotypes that Christians just think they have
[20:17] Speaker 4: all the answers are are thoughtless just simply saying well,
[20:20] Speaker 4: I don't know, and then we go back and we
[20:22] Speaker 4: do the research, and then next time we don't get
[20:23] Speaker 4: stumped on that question again. So you're right. Kind of
[20:26] Speaker 4: stepping out and engaging people in conversation is a great
[20:29] Speaker 4: way to personally build up our own faith.
[20:32] Speaker 2: You talk in the article Sean about the power of
[20:36] Speaker 2: worldview assumptions. In other words, if you start with philosophical naturalism,
[20:41] Speaker 2: it's going to be pretty hard for you to accept
[20:44] Speaker 2: something like the resurrection. How significant is it to be
[20:48] Speaker 2: able to say you truly have an open mind because
[20:52] Speaker 2: you're allowing both natural as well as supernatural explanations as
[20:57] Speaker 2: possibilities for what you encounter in the world.
[21:01] Speaker 4: I get to engage with many skeptics, people that call
[21:04] Speaker 4: themselves skeptics, whether it's over coffee, whether it's on kind
[21:08] Speaker 4: of missionships. I take my students on debates or in
[21:12] Speaker 4: this dialogue that I write about in the article, and
[21:16] Speaker 4: I love talking with him because one thing that comes
[21:19] Speaker 4: very clear to me is just how powerful your beginning
[21:23] Speaker 4: assumptions shape the conclusions that we come to. So I
[21:27] Speaker 4: frequently ask skeptics. I say, before I go into all
[21:29] Speaker 4: my evidence for the resurrection, or for the Bible, or
[21:32] Speaker 4: for the existence of God, I almost always start by saying,
[21:35] Speaker 4: what evidence would you find persuasive? What evidence would convince you?
[21:40] Speaker 4: And I'm not kidding, Hank. I had some of my
[21:42] Speaker 4: students on a panel up at Berkeley with about one
[21:45] Speaker 4: hundred skeptics and atheists theory, and we asked that to
[21:48] Speaker 4: a senior I think he was a philosophy major at Berkeley,
[21:52] Speaker 4: which is a great school, and he said to me,
[21:54] Speaker 4: he said, you know, I think if there was a
[21:57] Speaker 4: miracle that hundreds of people saw, that we could witness
[22:00] Speaker 4: that we had on film. He said, maybe I would
[22:03] Speaker 4: believe he goes, but my first instinct would be that
[22:06] Speaker 4: I am probably on drugs and would need somebody to
[22:09] Speaker 4: fix my brain. Now you think about that, I mean,
[22:13] Speaker 4: that person is so committed to naturalism, that there's nothing
[22:17] Speaker 4: that I could say or evidence I could give that
[22:20] Speaker 4: would come close to that, and even if I did,
[22:22] Speaker 4: he would think that he would still be on drugs.
[22:26] Speaker 4: So the point is that these assumptions that we have
[22:29] Speaker 4: oftentimes skeptics. I say to skeptics, I go, you're skeptical,
[22:32] Speaker 4: but are you really skeptical of your own skepticism? Because
[22:37] Speaker 4: as Christians, the irony is I think Christianity is more
[22:39] Speaker 4: open minded because if there's a natural explanation for something,
[22:44] Speaker 4: then let's follow the evidence and not posit a miracle.
[22:47] Speaker 4: But skeptics can't even be open to the possibility of
[22:51] Speaker 4: a miracle. They've ruled it out at least most that
[22:54] Speaker 4: I talked to, before they even look at the evidence.
[22:58] Speaker 4: So one of the things I write about in so
[23:00] Speaker 4: articles I try to get people to think about, Okay,
[23:02] Speaker 4: what are the basic worldview considerations that drive us and
[23:06] Speaker 4: drive other people? And we have to get to the
[23:09] Speaker 4: heart of those commitments before our apologetics many times will
[23:13] Speaker 4: have the impact that we wanted to have.
[23:16] Speaker 2: Sean, you are the son of one of the most
[23:19] Speaker 2: famous apologists of the twenty first century, and certainly he
[23:22] Speaker 2: was a famous apologist in the twentieth century as well.
[23:25] Speaker 2: But talk about the power of humility. Here, you have
[23:29] Speaker 2: this pedigree, your dad's a famous apologist. Do you go
[23:33] Speaker 2: in with pride or do you exercise the power of
[23:37] Speaker 2: genuine humility?
[23:40] Speaker 4: You know, all I can say is that I try
[23:43] Speaker 4: to be humble. If I sit here and I said, yes,
[23:46] Speaker 4: I have real humility, it probably like C. S. Lewis's
[23:48] Speaker 4: in Mere Christianity, I would be so prideful. I didn't
[23:51] Speaker 4: even see it. But I'll tell you, Hank. One of
[23:54] Speaker 4: the things about having a father like mine, who I
[23:56] Speaker 4: just I mean, my dad had an alcoholic father and
[23:59] Speaker 4: a terrible upbringing, just rough, difficult. He was sexually abused
[24:05] Speaker 4: for a number of years, and he's been so driven
[24:08] Speaker 4: when God changed his life to just tell the world
[24:11] Speaker 4: the truth books, debate, speeches. And for me, having a
[24:15] Speaker 4: dad who's just so powerful and so persuasive, it's driven
[24:19] Speaker 4: me to not just rely upon his convictions, but to
[24:23] Speaker 4: try to find out for myself. So I look at
[24:27] Speaker 4: my dad and I'm genuinely just humbled that I got
[24:30] Speaker 4: to have him as my father, that I have the
[24:33] Speaker 4: relationship with him, that I do, the example that I have,
[24:36] Speaker 4: and looking at him, who's been so successful in so
[24:39] Speaker 4: many fields in life. It's kind of made me look
[24:41] Speaker 4: in the mirror and go, boy, you better work hard
[24:43] Speaker 4: and you better be humble and not take anything for granted.
[24:47] Speaker 4: So having a dad that's so successful has just kind
[24:50] Speaker 4: of I don't know, I guess I don't take things
[24:53] Speaker 4: for granted, and in many ways I try to really
[24:56] Speaker 4: rely upon the Lord and not my own strength.
[24:58] Speaker 2: And I'll tell you this, your dad's very proud of
[25:01] Speaker 2: you as well. And we're very pleased with the article
[25:03] Speaker 2: that you authored for the Christian Research Journal, very pleased
[25:07] Speaker 2: with the work you're doing in apologetics. And Sean has
[25:10] Speaker 2: always continue to pray that God will use you not
[25:15] Speaker 2: by might nor by power, but by his spirit.
[25:18] Speaker 4: Well, thanks for the encouragement, Hank. Every time I see you,
[25:20] Speaker 4: you're building me up and believe in me. So keep
[25:23] Speaker 4: pouring out to younger apologists. And we need a lot
[25:25] Speaker 4: of new ones to come along to carry the torch
[25:27] Speaker 4: that you and my dad had been caring for some time.
[25:30] Speaker 2: Thanks Sean, God blessure my friend. And of course the
[25:33] Speaker 2: Christian Research Journal is about what Seun was just talking about.
[25:37] Speaker 2: It's about equipping today's apologists. And you think, well, that's
[25:42] Speaker 2: for the hired gun. No, it's for you. It's not
[25:44] Speaker 2: about the hired gun. Every believer has to be equipped.
[25:49] Speaker 2: You know, if you look at the New Testament Church,
[25:51] Speaker 2: they turned the world upside down, not because of the
[25:54] Speaker 2: hired gun. The hired guns predominantly stayed and drew. Someone
[25:58] Speaker 2: was the believer sped throughout and Samaria, and they turned
[26:02] Speaker 2: the world upside down because they genuinely believe that Christ
[26:06] Speaker 2: had risen from the dead through out of time. For
[26:08] Speaker 2: this edition of the Bible Answman Broadcast, look forward to
[26:10] Speaker 2: seeing you next time right here with more answers to
[26:13] Speaker 2: your questions.
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