F. F. Bruce

I would then happily be 20 minutes, but not more than that.

My PhD supervisor was a guy called F.F. Bruce, one of the key evangelical scholars.

He used to say to me, if you've got something to say, 20 minutes is quite enough.

If you've got nothing to say, you need at least 40 minutes.

That will provoke some of your hearers.

Yeah, we're a 40-minute bunch.

It's hard to disagree with FF Bruce.

He's an esteemed man, and I'm glad that you got a chance to- He

But, um, of all people, Gary North actually has a really good book called hoax of higher criticism.

Uh, there's a little book by FF Bruce called the new Testament documents.

Are they reliable? That's a good book.

Um, there's also longer books like Craig Blomberg's book on the gospels, which is good.

These are really academic texts that I'm getting into the last two, but FF Bruce's book is very readable, even though it's kind of academic.

Um, But then, I mean, for the deity of Christ, I mean, like that's all.

Just go watch my, I've got countless lectures on that.

25 years and 25,000 manuscripts versus a lot of these people had five or six manuscripts.

And so F.F. Bruce, who's a scholar, says this.

It can't have been easy, as some writers seem to think, to invent words and deeds of Jesus in those early years when so many of his disciples were about who could remember what had and had not happened.

There were also plenty of people at that time, and this is important, that were opposed to Christianity.

And I say he's one of my intellectual grandfathers and spiritual grandfathers.

What I mean by that and what I've said before is that FF Bruce mentored one of my mentors.

When I was at Denver Seminary, I had a mentor and professor named Dr. Bruce Demarest.

Dr. Bruce Demarest.

Now, there's two Bruce's.

Don't get them confused.

FF Bruce, that's his last name.

But Bruce Demarest, that's his first name.