My History Teacher Says 'The Gospels Are Unreliable'
Three questions to ask your history teacher when they claim you can't trust the Gospels.
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Three questions to ask your history teacher when they claim you can't trust the Gospels.
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?
In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.
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?
Who is Jesus? Who did he claim to be? What questions might we need to ask? What kind of evidence is there?
On the first week of April, 2006, the National Geographic Society announced the discovery of a lost gospel titled, 'The Gospel of Judas'.…