Pints With Aquinas Dr. Brant Pitre DESTROYS Tiktok Heretics | Last Call Ep. 5
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Mar 12, 2026 
Dr. Brant Pitre, Catholic biblical scholar and New Testament expert, tackles skeptical TikTok takes with sharp historical and textual perspective. He discusses reliability and genre of the Gospels. He examines claims about Jesus' words, divinity, resurrection accounts, manuscript evidence, and why Jesus prayed. Short, lively, and unapologetically scholarly.
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Gospels Are Decades Not Centuries Removed
- Even skeptical scholarship dates the Gospels within decades of Jesus, not centuries, so they remain historically proximate.
- Pitre notes some scholars place gospels as early as the 40s AD, keeping eyewitness proximity intact.
Genre Explains Paul's Silence On Parables
- Paul's epistles are a different genre (letters), so absence of sermons/parables in Paul doesn't mean Jesus didn't teach them.
- Pitre points out 1 Corinthians 11 preserves Jesus' words of institution about the Eucharist as earliest recorded sayings.
Jesus Makes Implicit Claims To Divinity In Synoptics
- Jesus' actions and scriptural allusions function as implicit divine claims recognized by contemporaries.
- Pitre cites the paralytic forgiven of sins and scribes' reaction plus Jesus' use of 'Son of Man' and Psalm 110/Daniel imagery.
