The Reliability of the Gospels | William Lane Craig |#CLIP

In this conversation, William Lane Craig talks with John about the authority of New Testament records and a revolution of biblical scholarship no longer comparing the gospels with mythology but instead with archaeological and eye witness testimony.

William Lane Craig is an American analytic philosopher, Christian theologian and apologist, and author. He is Professor of Philosophy at Houston Baptist University and Research Professor of Philosophy at Talbot School of Theology (Biola University).

At age 16, while a junior in high school, he first heard the message of the Christian gospel and yielded his life to Christ. He has spent his career contributing to the theological debate, including updating and defending the Kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God.

William Lane Craig has authored and edited over forty books and over two hundred articles published in professional philosophy and theology journals, including The Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Faith and Philosophy, Erkenntnis, and American Philosophical Quarterly. His most recent publication is In Quest of the Historical Adam: A Biblical and Scientific Exploration.

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[EmergingEvents]

Treat them as facts or myths, the key is to find the Gospels as living principles inside myself. I achieve this by taking the Christ principle inside myself through meditation.

[kaylenehousego]

"A reversal of scholarship "....utterly astute n correct when it comes to the recorded history of Jesus Christ. Even saying His name can n does illicit instant reactive hatred .

[Mark_Williams]

Here's a question for Dr Lang. When was Jesus born? Was it (a) during the reign of Herod the Great (so, some time between 37 and 4 BCE); or (b) in 6 CE during the census of Cyrenius? Because, if the two Gospels that actually have the Nativity in them can't even agree on that simple detail (and there's at least a decade between the two dates), then how can they be relied on for anything else pertaining to being an accurate biography of Jesus?

[nickbrasing]

Well at least WLC is not invoking Habermas by name anymore to support this position. Now he just doesn't cite anything to support his assertions on what scholars accept. I used to have a fair amount of respect for Bill on this. But that's being whittled down over time as he goes on. The Gospels are reliable if you have faith in them. If you're looking for evidence though? You're going to be surprised. And more than disappointed.

[jadevanstralen]

The thumbnail spelt reliability wrong. I was wondering if it was a joke but I just think it was a mistake. Pretty funny either way. 😅

[rubenlabrana]

So the tomb of Jesus: The guy was killed in the first place, because he was regarded as a nobody, an enemy of Rome. Killed by Roman authorities. Do you really think that a man who got crucified, would be given his own tomb? Or is that what imaginative folklores pretend? The people who executed him wouldn’t designate a tomb for him. Christians think he’s god, and so like a pharaoh, they imagine he got his own tomb. But really he would have been discarded in an undignified way. Point: Jesus never had a tomb of which he could resurrect from, the nature of his execution is such that he was killed and disposed of.

[kaylenehousego]

It is grossly unsophisticated, uncool and completely frowned upon to even say, the J word (Jesus ) in all fashionable circles. Likewise to use His name (Jesus ) in the academic n political arena.
You may be about to discover who your friends - and enemies, are John. However i have (a feeling ) that you have been around long enough to....

[bobinindiana]

If Adam was not real, why did Jesus come to earth?

[oaklanddba]

Thank you for giving me one final push to unsubscribe from this feed.

[jerryhatley]

This I believe (notice I didn’t say this I know, because no one knows in the provable sense with hard data), there is no god….that sets up my hypothesis…then I go out into life testing my hypothesis in every honest and forthright way with no preconceived desire for any particular outcome….even the writer in the bible says he/she said “ test me and try me…..”….

[randygault]

The Gospels aren't even reliable with respect to each other, let alone reality.

[JacobStein]

Beyond the testimony of the four authors of the gospels there is no evidence of anything. There are no other sources for any information about Jesus. If four Jews, who you have never before met and about whom you know nothing, told you that their rabbi rose from the grave, which is more likely: He rose from the grave. Or they are lying.

[rubenlabrana]

Frightening how warped, and common Christian ideology is. It is pure psychosis and reverence to mythology, yet culturally accepted as respectable and ordinary 😬

[jg]

religious believers, of all religions, have long winded and difficult to understand rationale for the legitimacy of their chosen religion. IF there was an omnipotent god, that unbelievably powerful being would make its intent and teachings clear and easily understood by everyone. The fact that there are over 3, 000 religions is one significant piece of evidence to refute the existence of a god. William Lane Craig is just another religious believer using nonsense to try and justify the existence of god.