Why the case for the truth of Christianity has never been stronger - but Europe is a difficult place to spread that message.

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.

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

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

If your mother claims that you are an honest person, we may trust you that you will do what you say. Yet some reservation is understandable…

Dr John Dickson describes the key sources for our knowledge of the life of Jesus, assessing them from the perspective of an historian.