How Were the New Testament Books Compiled?
Are the New Testament books an arbitrary or personal selection of what was available? Or is there more to it than that?
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Are the New Testament books an arbitrary or personal selection of what was available? Or is there more to it than that?
Considering the question of whether belief in God lacks the evidence to support it - and why arguments on their own are not enough.
Adrian Holloway tackles the question of whether we can trust what we read in the New Testament or should dismiss it as unsubstantiated myth.
This video considers how long it took before Jesus's first followers came to believe that he was the Son of God.
Did Jesus claim or imply that he was anything more than a prophet? Or did his followers transform him into the Son of God many years later?
Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?
In this video, Richard Bauckham considers whether we can know who were the main witnesses behind the Gospel accounts of Jesus's life.
How many hand-written copies of the Gospel accounts are there? What does this reveal about possible mistakes?
This video examines the historical evidence that Jesus performed miracles.