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The Counsel of Trent

Dialogue: Is Luke’s Gospel reliable? (with Godless Engineer)

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Trent sits down with John Gleason (Godless Engineer) and defends the historical reliability of the Gospel of Luke.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:07.0

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:12.6

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

0:16.0

In today's episode, I want to share with you a dialogue I had with an atheist YouTuber

0:21.8

named Godless Engineer.

0:23.6

His real name is John Gleason, but Gleason has YouTube channel called Godless Engineer.

0:29.4

He offers a variety of videos defending atheism, defending mythicism, which is the view

0:35.0

that Jesus never existed.

0:37.3

But that's not what I actually dialogue with him about.

0:39.6

He invited me onto his channel to dialogue about the historical reliability of the gospel

0:46.0

of Luke.

0:47.0

And I was really excited to do this because biblical apologetics is something I haven't

0:51.7

addressed in a while here on the podcast.

0:54.3

So we've done a lot on things like atheism, the existence of God.

0:57.6

I had that great debate with Ben Watkins.

1:00.4

I've covered moral issues, Catholic Protestant issues, but I really enjoy talking about scripture.

1:06.8

It's why I wrote an entire book on the subject called Hard Sangs, a Catholic approach to answering

1:12.2

Bible difficulties.

1:13.6

So I haven't done biblical apologetics in a while, and I haven't done a dialogue or a debate

1:18.2

about it in a while.

1:19.2

So it was really fun to sit down with John and have this dialogue.

1:21.9

He's a really nice guy, and we were able to have a really civil conversation because above

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