This talk explains why the claim that Jesus was no more than a moral teacher doesn't account for the evidence about him.

Are the Gospels full of contradictions? What would have been seen as normal standards of trustworthy historical writing at that time?

How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…

The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.

Can we be confident that we have the original text of the Gospels? How does it compare to other ancient documents?

What does the oldest fragment of the New Testament tell us?

Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?