Are you prepared to defend what you believe?

Do you even know what you believe in the first place?

Welcome to the Please Convince Me Podcast, the Fastest Growing Apologetics Podcast on the internet and the only apologetics

podcast hosted by a cold case homicide detective. We're here to equip believers, encourage seekers and engage skeptics with the Truth of the Christian World View.

Here's the host of the Please Commence Me Podcast, Jim Wallace. Well, welcome back to the police can miss me podcast.

My name is Jay Warner Wallace.

We've been working through the non-canonical Gospels and at the end of the last podcast I think I mentioned to you it might take a week

off to do email but as I was kind of assessing where we are in our study of the non-canonicals I think

we're in a good place right now just to finish this week get it done and then you'll have a good

grasp of what is out there and where the challenges lie for those who would

argue that the non-canonicals, the very presence and the existence of the non-canonical Gospels somehow makes it impossible

for us to ever know or trust what we have learned from the canonical texts and therefore we

can't really know anything about Jesus and as Bart Emery would say

this great diversity of opinion about Jesus in the first three centuries means that no

singular point of view could actually be demonstrably true.

And of course we talked about why that's not the case the last couple of weeks as we've been

working through the non-canonicals, but today we're going to finish up not by continuing

through all of these non-canonicals because we've talked

about so far oh I don't know maybe 10 or 12 of these and these are the ones

we've covered the ones that appear earliest in history that appear closest to the actual lives of the eyewitnesses.

And so in some ways these might be considered to be the most challenging because

people will argue they appear very early in history.

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