Peter J Williams and Bart Ehrman – Are the Gospels historically reliable?

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🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Arguably, no individual has influenced the course of history more than Jesus of Nazareth. But, can we trust the accounts of his life, death and resurrection? In this latest episode of The Big Conversation from Unbelievable? leading sceptical New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman engages with noted Cambridge University Bible scholar Peter J Williams who defends the reliability of the accounts. For Peter J Williams ‘Can We Trust the Gospels?’: https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/can-we-trust-the-gospels For Bart Ehrman: https://www.bartdehrman.com/ For The Big Conversation Season 2: www.thebigconversation.show For more faith debates and extra resources 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	Premier Podcasts
0:07.0	You're listening to Unbelievably on Premier Christian Radio
0:17.0	Hello and welcome to Unbelievably with me Justin Briley and to the big conversation
0:22.2	Episode 3 of Season 2 of our special video debate series but also of course broadcasting
0:27.8	via radio and on podcast as well. I'm going to be introducing my guests for this special
0:33.2	edition of the show Bart Ehrman and Peter J Williams very shortly.
0:38.0	No feedback today because we're going long on today's edition of the program but thanks
0:41.8	to all those who continue to get in touch about recent editions of the show we had that
0:45.7	very sparky encounter between Steve Chalk and Phil Moore. Lots of feedback coming in
0:50.8	on that as well as a couple of blogs been written about it as well. And last week's discussion
0:55.0	on evolution between Neve Middleton and Andrew Parker. Lots of fascinating feedback to
1:00.3	that as well. We'll make sure to read some of that out in future editions of the program.
1:05.3	I'm looking forward to meeting a few unbelievable listeners in Oxford. If you're catching today
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