The Historical Jesus: Four Views

A round-table discussion on Jesus of Nazareth featuring Gabriele Boccaccini, Saeed Ahmed Khan, Charles Mabee and Robert M. Price. Moderated by Scott DeGregorio.

[robmckay]

It was good to see Imran Aijaz in the audience. I enjoyed listening to the panel of speakers. Greetings from New Zealand.

[nickynik]

Brilliant event! Thank you for organising and creating the video.

[wfenio]

Dr. Price is brilliant and eloquent.  I think his skepticism of historicity is very well-founded.

[maxxwellbeing]

The impossibility of God’s existence is absolutely immeasurable.

[scottbignell]

Oh dear. That poor lady @ 1:29:35. Feel sorry for her. I can only hope that this conversation planted some kind of critical seed for her.

[Zxuma]

Dr. Price killed it in his element. What an encyclopedia!

[williamwest]

Robert M. Price ROCKS!  Great Event. Fascinating discussion. Thank you for posting! 

[zytigon]

Great debate thanks. Robert M. Price lists 100 non canonical sayings of Jesus p47-p62 of " The pre-Nicene new testament "

[mitchellrose]

Michael Lawrence writes that the "Mythological Jesus" was placed in a historical time setting with Pontius Pilate, John the Baptist etc to accommodate a "prophecy" justification in Daniel. Jesus was born into the world 70 years prior to the Temple destruction. It represented a solution to the change from Temple focus to the personal Savior sin forgiver.

[DonswatchingtheTube]

For every fragment of a manuscript, there was a generation that had the whole document and most probably more copies.

[chrystallapsomas]

So. Much time is taken up with introductions. Please start the debates more promptly and please speakers prepare your material so that it is concise and simple so that it can be understood.

[mogbaba]

24:00 The fact that Quran speaks about The Holy Book stories in a way that the public knows the stories, tells us that the public are not the Pagans in Mecca or
Medina, but rather from the Levant (Iraq, Syria, Jordan). Those people were already Christians.

[infocus]

First thought before watching: Wow, what a small room.

[george]

That one guy has such a strong foreign accent that I can't understand a word he says.

[Roedygr]

The first three speakers ignored the topic: historical Jesus. The third Christian speaker claimed it was a good thing for verifiability that Matthew differs so much from other gospels. Matthew claims an army of zombie saints marched on the city. He claimed a 3 hour solar eclipse covered the world. No other gospel recorded this. None of the 121 historians recorded them. None of the Chinese astronomers recorded the eclipse. To me, that is extremely strong evidence Matthew is a tall tale.
That means the bible is not inerrant. That means the creator of the universe did not write it. That means it is just hearsay five levels deep. That means it is not authoritative.

The Christian speaker also claimed you should cling to both the historical objective truth and to faith, which is defined as believing what you know is not so. What possible advantage is there to believing lies?

[batmandeltaforce]

If not for Constantine christianity would have passed into history without a splash, just like every other myth religion.

[karmatmasih]

Thank you for great all information, you are great guys, bless all of you.

[wowmyworldy]

Although I don't agree with Bob price but he is the most brilliant guy out there.

[FeatherRobert]

... Jesus is so important to the religion.

[johnniebee]

I'm hear to hear what Dr Price has to say, the first guy was alright as well he made some interesting points