Here is a recent episode that I’m sure you’ll enjoy.

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Michael Kruger on Bart Ehrman’s claim we can’t trust the Holy Week Gospel accounts (April 1, 2016)

The MP3 file is here.

Topics:

• Who is Bart Ehrman? What are his books about?
• Conservatives tend to agree with Ehrman on the facts, not on his interpretation of the facts
• Ehrman has an article claiming that the Holy Week gospel accounts are untrustworthy
• do the variants in the NT texts undermine the reliability of the texts?
• the difference between reasonable scholar-Bart and hyper-skeptical popularizer-Bart
• where does Ehrman’s view of gospel reliability fit in the broad spectrum of NT scholars?
• there are 200,000 to 400,000 variants in the copies of the gospels: what is a “variant”?
• can a person be an authentic Christian if the gospels are not actual historical events?
• Ehrman’s view: Christians can have feelings about events that never happened = not Biblical
• was Jesus just an itinerant preacher who spoke pithy slogans? what about his Jewish background?
• is there scholarly agreement regarding the minimal facts underlying the resurrection of Jesus?
• is there a disconnect between uneducated eyewitnesses and educated Greek gospel authors?
• is the early church an “oral culture” or a “textual culture”? Is oral transmission reliable?
• was text of the New Testament was inspired by God or dictated by God?
• do we have any reasons to think that the gospel authors were in contact with eyewitnesses?
• should be be hyper-skeptical of the gospels when we have an early creed in 1 Cor 15:3-8?

Stand to Reason does a nice job with their podcast. Not only can you download the MP3, but they have a transcript, and links to resources mentioned in each episode. First class!