Engaging Well with Teachers
When teachers challenge Christianity it's hard to know how to respond. Here are some tips for having a good conversation with them.
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When teachers challenge Christianity it's hard to know how to respond. Here are some tips for having a good conversation with them.
In RE lessons it often seems all religions are equally valid. Here are some suggestions for speaking to your teacher about this.
Sean McDowell interviews Mike Licona on how his research into ancient biographies sheds light onto Gospel contradictions.
Are the New Testament books an arbitrary or personal selection of what was available? Or is there more to it than that?
Are the Gospels full of contradictions? What would have been seen as normal standards of trustworthy historical writing at that time?
In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.
The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.
The way the Gospel accounts use correct place names shows that they were based on reliable information from first hand testimony.
Were the Gospel accounts corrupted as they were passed on? Was there any way to prevent this happening?