The Christmas story: fact or fairytale? Lydia McGrew vs Jonathan Pearce

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🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Atheist blogger Jonathan Pearce is the author of ‘The Nativity: A Critical Examination’. He believes the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke are pious fiction. Christian thinker Lydia McGrew, author of ‘The Mirror or the Mask?’ defends the historicity of the Nativity accounts. Take our show survey: https://survey-star.co.uk/unbelievablechristmas For Lydia Mcgrew: http://www.lydiamcgrew.com/ Lydia's YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSwhBk0vUSg_6prKkR82IDQ For Jonathan Pearce: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/ USA listeners check out our new USA website for exclusive resources and to support us: http://www.unbelievable.show Everywhere else, subscribe to our newsletter https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter and support the show https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley

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1:30.1	what's coming up over the Christmas and holiday period. For now let's get into today's festive debate.
1:41.7	You're listening to unbelievable with Justin Briarley.
1:45.1	Well on today's show we're asking the Christmas story fact or fairy tale. Now the
1:55.0	Nativity has been described as the greatest story ever told but is it just a story or is
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