You're listening to Unbelievable with Justin Browley.

Hello and welcome back to the program. Today's show from the Archives is the first of a two

parter we did back in March 2012 on the subject of miracles, both in the Bible and in the present

day. Craig Eskina is a New Testament scholar at Asbury Theological Seminary in Kentucky. His book

Miracles, The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts, is a two-volume work, assessing the case for

the miracles of Jesus and the many reported cases of miracles around the world. And you may remember

of course that we had him back very recently with Michael Shermer to discuss evidence specifically

for miracle healings. I'm putting the link to that in the show notes. But our other guest on this

occasion was Jeff Lillys, an atheist listener from Ireland. And he was contesting the reliability

of miracle accounts. They discussed the nature of miracles, Hume's philosophical argument against

them, whether the gospel accounts of miracles were invented or embellished, and why does God

supposedly hate amputees? Well before we begin, I remind you to book your place on Unbelievable

the Conference 2022, God unmuted, which is happening in just under three weeks time Saturday,

the 14th of May. All about helping Christians to find their voice again and the church too in an

age where there's often pressure to stay silent. It's being held at the British Library and you can

attend online or in person. Great line-up of speakers I've mentioned before, Alistair

McGraft, Lisa Fields, Glenn Scrivener, Joseph DeSousa, Calvin Robinson, Sharon Dirick, Jeff

Weint, Skyjutani, Phil Vischer, John White and loads of great panel Q&A where we'll really dig

into some of the big questions that are facing us in our day and age. Questions like how do we

respond to some of the issues in culture, council culture, race, identity, politics, that kind of thing?

How do we transform the culture and not be consumed by it? What about practical ways to share our

faith in today's often confused and divided society? So there'll be loads of really practical stuff

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