Who would base their lives on a brutal book of fairy stories?
Considering the question of whether belief in God lacks the evidence to support it - and why arguments on their own are not enough.
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Once we've got at the facts behind the myths about Jesus, this final video considers what difference he makes to us today.
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In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.
Were the Gospel accounts based on the testimony of eyewitnesses who were still alive when the Gospels were written?
This video describes the discovery of the earliest copy of part of John's Gospel, the 'John Rylands Fragment'.
How many hand-written copies of the Gospel accounts are there? What does this reveal about possible mistakes?
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'No room at the inn' goes the traditional story. But is that really what the Bible says?