Further links: Angels, wise men, and a baby
Links to further resources to follow up on the bethinking booklet which asks why the events of the first Christmas show us what God is like.
Related resources for Did Jesus Think He was God?
Links to further resources to follow up on the bethinking booklet which asks why the events of the first Christmas show us what God is like.
Once we've got at the facts behind the myths about Jesus, this final video considers what difference he makes to us today.
Are the Gospels full of contradictions? What would have been seen as normal standards of trustworthy historical writing at that time?
Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?
The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.
This video describes the discovery of the earliest copy of part of John's Gospel, the 'John Rylands Fragment'.
How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…
A response to the controversial claim that Jesus had a wife.
Is Christmas just a nice story 'for the children' or an historical fact that affects us all?