Welcome back, everyone, to session four of our Alexio Bible study on Jesus, where we're studying

the biblical and historical evidence for Christ. This is the last of the first half of the course

where we're going to be looking at the Gospels. We've been focusing a lot on questions such as

who wrote the Gospels. We've been focusing a lot on questions such as who wrote the Gospels.

Are they reliable? What kind of books are they? What about the lost Gospels and the evidence

for their reliability? And in this session, what we're going to do is ask one last question,

and that has to do with the dating of the Gospels. When were the Gospels written?

And this is a very important question,

if you're wanting to answer the predominant question,

the main issue, who is Jesus?

Because we want to ask about whether,

even if the Gospels were written by apostles

and they were intended to be biographies,

were the apostles or the authors actually able to accurately recount what Jesus did and what Jesus said?

Or had too much time passed, right, since the events themselves.

Because one of the issues in history is that as time passes,

our memories fade, right? They get distorted. They change. And so skeptics will sometimes say,

okay, maybe the Gospels were actually written by apostles and their companions. But when

were they written? Are they too late to be reliable? That's the question we're looking at in this

session. And again, I'm going to go back to the words of Bart Ehrman, that scholar, I mentioned,

atheist scholar, but a very prominent New Testament scholar in the United States. And his statement

of what he calls the problem of the time gap between the events of Jesus's life

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