Bart Ehrman Counters Mike Licona - Trust the Gospels?

Dr. Bart Ehrman responds to his friend Dr. Mike Licona's reasons why the New Testament Gospels may be regarded as historically reliable accounts of the life of Jesus.

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[heethanthen]

Dr Ehrman is just collaborating with everyone these days. Can’t wait to see him playable on Smash

[dienekes]

I love the "sure the gospels have a bunch of inconsistencies, contradictions, and logical fallacies, but they are still inerrant!" argument.

[Slumvsky]

That's one important collaboration, Paul, you sure are getting noticed! And thanks to Dr. Ehrman for his time as well!

[Transblucency]

I've hugely enjoyed Professor Bart Ehrman's courses on The Great Courses. He seems very fair-minded in his treatment of the Gospels.

Very happy to see him on Paulogia.

[andreasplosky]

Mike Licona is an excellent example of how a mind gets mangled by theism.
The things Licona will say are sometimes so twisted that it is beyond belief.

[streetsdisciple]

If anyone has earned dinner with Dr. Ehrman, it’s Paul.

[drlegendre]

Flipping amazing.. Bart Ehrman on Paulogia! How can you not love it?

[sageohio]

I still like the story Jesus goes alone in the garden to pray in private while everyone is asleep and someone recorded every word Jesus says 🤔

[roblovestar]

Bart says "...it depends what you mean by reliable", and then uses the example of a friend who is 90% right. So in his example, I would probably trust them to give me directions. But if I have TWO friends who are 90% right, and they give me somewhat different directions, and those directions involve supernatural claims, my trust level will plummet.

[HumblyQuestioning]

Bart's avatar is on point. Great collab!

[bpdrumstudio]

Facts From a scholar like Bart over a believer with faith something is real. Great vid

[diamondflaw]

A delight to watch. I love the calls to go ahead and find the discrepancies for yourself, such a good way to encourage someone to question their sources and think critically.

[oakriver]

Great video! Your guest list is growing to become a “who’s who” on these topics.

[ajaxwillis]

So what I got from Mike's video is; "because some guy said that someone told him what someone told them a thing that happened to someone else was a thing that happened years prior; and any inconsistencies that occur between the different stories are still accurate as the differences were deliberate. Thousands of years later people who read a thing agree with it and therefore Truth." Is that right; did I capture the "gist" of it?

[exkingjohn]

Wow. 2 of my favourite teacher/speakers on the same show. Thank you both.

[scienceexplains]

Peter is Mark’s source? In Mark, the disciples are a gullible, slow-to-learn, no-personality group that usually speak as one.
They come across as literary props. They are useless except on occasion to duplicate Jesus’ healing.

[Locust]

There's nothing that new testament Scholars can say about the New Testament that can't be said about the Quran. Yet these Christian apologist would never accept that the Quran is true based on their own arguments when presented on behalf of the Quran. (Nor should anyone, the Quran is apparently just as untrue as the Bible in its supernatural claims)
I love to see a video where someone listens to Christian apologists claims of why the Bible should be accepted and then present the exact same arguments on behalf of the Quran and get them to explain exactly why their own argument should not be accepted.
It would be trivially easy because as far as access to originals and the dates and the authors being eyewitnesses, all of these are easier to verify for the Quran than the Bible.

[foppishdilletaunt]

Maximum respect to Dr Ehrman for showing up to do this video & mazel tov and kudos to for making the kinda of arguments & counter-apologetics that mainline Evangos feel compelled to engage with.

[MichaelYoder]

Scored on Dr. Bart! He is such a wealth of information and has a great sense of humour

[TibbsFrankies]

Thank "god" you got away from the young earth creationism debunks and focused on textual criticism. I find the textual criticism series more informative and educational than recollecting my 7th grade education on biology and anthropology!