Dr. John Nelson, welcome to Within Reason.

Mr. O'Connor, great to be here.

I'm smiling so much because it's a thrill to finally bring you on the show.

We've been friends for a number of years and we always just have the best conversations, always edifying,

although I think that is probably more in one direction than the other most of the time,

off camera, happens all the time.

We've traveled around the world to theological sites and

had debates and discussions about Christianity which I honestly think have. In fact people

who've listened to the show a fair bit will have heard your points.

We'll have heard me mention you by name on a few occasions,

including recently to a certain Dr. Peterson.

We'll have heard you reference specifically.

A lot of the things that you've taught me about Christianity and biblical

scholarship have seeped into their channel and I've been practically begging you to

come on the show so I'm fine I'm so glad to finally sit down with you and and and

I'm finally here within reason yes yes yes yes, within it. We'll try to keep it

within reason and but but hopefully not just within the podcast because you also

have a sub-stack which is a

behind the Gospels dot com where you write on biblical scholarship and I think that it's a

I mean it's a relatively new but brilliant resource for for biblical scholarship scholarship and critical commentary on the Gospels.

So if people are interested in that at all, I'd recommend at least go and check it out.

Open it in a tab. Do it now. You're listening to the podcast if you're watching on YouTube.

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