William Lane Craig is the greatest Christian debater in the history of the church, and Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong is a very liberal non-Christian.
Part 1 of 2: (61 minutes)
Part 2 of 2: (42 minutes)
The moderator is none other than the famous journalist David Aikman! The opening speeches are only 15 minutes, and the rebuttals are 10 minutes. This debate is accessible because Craig’s opponent is not really attacking him on a scholarly basis, but more as the pretty typical liberal atheist that you meet at work.
Craig spends all of his opening speech explaining historical methods, sources, dating and how he infers the resurrection as the best explanation of the minimal facts. The resurrection of Jesus is quite awesome to debate when people are given time to explain the historical methods and how the scholars use these methods to evaluate which facts are likely to be historical and which are not.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
Spong is such a fraud. I wish he’d take that collar off.
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Craig vs Spong? LOL. That’s funny right there. I’m not sure why Craig would bother.
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I actually had some atheists use Spong as an example of how even prominent Christians believed that Jesus was a myth, on par with the mythologies of Egypt, Greece, etc. When I pointed out that Spong was a pretty bad example to use, I was accused of picking and choosing which brand of Christianity I wanted to believe.
:-P
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A nice take-down of a deserving heretic.
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