And so it all comes down to, you know,

are you going to approach the subject skeptically,

which is the one side or golebly,

which is how he's presenting everybody who's not skeptical

or which is what I would argue,

are you engaging in the evidence intelligently

and discerningly, which is very different.

The next question is,

welcome to the Alisa Childers podcast.

Is the term historic Christianity something we can actually define

and demonstrate?

Or was early Christianity quite diverse

in what they believed in their core beliefs?

Was it simply the theological winners

who got to decide what we now call Christian orthodoxy?

My guest today has co-written a book addressing these claims

and taking a closer look at what the earliest Christians

believed in how they defined Christianity.

Dr. Andreas Kostinberger is the research professor

of New Testament and Biblical theology

and the director for the center of biblical studies

at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

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