If your mother claims that you are an honest person, we may trust you that you will do what you say. Yet some reservation is understandable…

What historical evidence is there for the life of Jesus and the first Christians?

Dr John Dickson describes the key sources for our knowledge of the life of Jesus, assessing them from the perspective of an historian.

Who is Jesus? Who did he claim to be? What questions might we need to ask? What kind of evidence is there?

Once we've got at the facts behind the myths about Jesus, this final video considers what difference he makes to us today.

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?

Are the Gospels full of contradictions? What would have been seen as normal standards of trustworthy historical writing at that time?

Were the Gospel accounts corrupted as they were passed on? Was there any way to prevent this happening?

How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…