Is John’s Gospel historically accurate? Lydia McGrew & Craig Evans debate

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🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Christian philosopher Lydia McGrew has recently accused evangelical scholars such as Mike Licona and Craig Evans, of undermining the historical reliability of John’s gospel. She cites Evans’ interactions with Bart Ehrman in debate as giving away too much ground to a sceptical view. New Testament scholar Craig Evans defends his view that John’s gospel is historically reliable but also includes theological development by the Johannine community who knew Jesus’ teaching. Also, at the end of today’s show, Jonny Somerville, creator of the NUA film series talks about its impact on young people investigating Christianity. For Lydia McGrew’s blog http://lydiaswebpage.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/jesus-never-said-i-am-statements.html For Craig Evans https://www.craigaevans.com/ For the NUA film series: https://nuafilmseries.org/ Get signed copies of Unbelievable? the book and audiobook: www.unbelievablebook.co.uk Get Unbelievable? the Conference 2017 DVD/CD & Digital Download: http://www.premier.org.uk/shop For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:00.0	Good afternoon and welcome along to Unbelievably. I'm Justin Briley. This is the program
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0:20.8	you can find details of the podcast, resources and loads of other interesting stuff as well.
0:26.2	And it won't have escaped your notice if you're a regular listener to Unbelievably
0:29.7	that Saturday the 19th of May today's show is in fact, of course, unbelievable conference
0:34.4	as well. So today's show is very much a pre-recorded one and a fascinating discussion today
0:39.0	between Lydia McGrew and Craig Evans on the historical aspects of John's Gospel.
0:44.9	But if you're listening to the podcast edition of the program today, which releases on the
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1:06.2	conference. And on next week's program, we'll be bringing you some highlights from the
1:10.2	day. And everyone who's at the conference will be getting a very special sneak preview
1:14.3	of the big conversation film series that we've been working on hard here at Unbelievably.
1:19.7	And if you're a podcast listener, you'll also get a preview of that in the coming week
1:23.2	as well. And you'll be hearing much more about it on future editions of the show.
1:27.8	Later on here on Unbelievably, Johnny Somerville will also be joining me to talk about a new
1:31.9	film series called Newer, helping people to engage with the claims of Christianity. And
1:37.0	he's also an exhibitor at this year's unbelievable conference. So lots to look forward to in today's
1:42.1	show. Let's get into our discussion.
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