PROS
+ Great comparison of OT prophecies, having been fulfilled in the time of Christ.
+ Great outlook into our future, the Second Coming of Christ.
+ Overall a wonderful testimony for Christ.
CONS
- They claimed that Christ died before the Passover Lamb was eaten and before Judas died. This firstly contradicts the narrative thread in Matthew 27, where Judas' death and the final purchase of the potter's field both happened before JESUS' death and even before His first trial before Pilate. A field could not be purchased without the involvement of Roman officials (plus payment of taxes) and therefore took time (impossibly some hours in the night; in our societies usually days or weeks). It also does not seem plausible to have Judas die on the very same day as JESUS and therefore to take away significance from JESUS' death, but he rather died in the hours after he knew that JESUS was going to be condemned - and several days before JESUS.
- A Fast-Track trial is not biblical. JESUS died on the penultimate day of the Passover Week - on the second, not the first Day of Preparation.
- Amnon Shor states that JESUS prayed at the Last Supper the Jewish Hamotzi prayer: "Blessed are You, LORD our God, King of the universe, Who brings forth bread from the earth." There is no scriptural basis for this and it would have been unusual that He spoke such prayer in Hebrew and not in Greek. The NT specifically points out the rare instances where something was uttered in Aramaic / Hebrew (see Mar 5:41-42, Mar 7:34, Act 22:1-2, Joh 20:15-17), and then translates this into Greek, clearly affirming the niche existence of Hebrew in that time. We should abstain from injecting things into the Bible that are not there, and especially from Judaizing.
- Almost exclusively academics are being interviewed.
- Involvement of Focus on the Family, Greg Laurie, John Bloom (Calvinist), Lee Strobel (de facto Catholic) and Paul Crouch (TBN, Kenneth Copeland).
