George Wood interviews Craig regarding his book Christobiography and therefore on the reliability of the Gospels. At the end, he hits Craig with harder questions. Listen to Craig try to figure out what to say! 😮
https://influencemagazine.com/en/Practice/The-Gospels-as-Truthful-Biographies-of-Jesus
Usually I just post Bible studies, videos, etc. (and often silly cartoons) here, but I did want to pause to acknowledge gratitude. Christianity Today listed my recent book Christobiography as its top biblical studies book for this year. There were many other great books out this year but I’m grateful for the further attention this brings to this book.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2020/january-february/christianity-today-2020-book-awards.html
Interview with Haden Clark: one-hour summary interview: https://youtu.be/07NHoQsyWgw
Admittedly I write better than I speak, especially extemporaneously, but this was an engaging exchange of ideas regarding differences in the Gospels, in this one-hour discussion. Some of us regard the differences as less significant historically than what we have in many fairly comparable ancient works; Bart regards many of them as problematic errors. We all had a friendly, civil exchange, however. It should be noted that each of us also did separate plenary presentations, so some of us had already offered positive arguments for the overall reliability of the Gospels, but at this point we were focusing on the more conspicuous differences among them.
“As criticizing other people’s religion has become more acceptable in our culture, hostile critics of Christianity are stepping up their attacks against Jesus, with some radical popular skeptics denying even His existence.
“Of course, denying His existence, or even the main elements of His ministry, is historically implausible. We have more accounts about Jesus, from within living memory of His ministry, than for almost any other ancient teacher.”
The above are the first two paragraphs of my article recently published in Influence magazine (this article), which addresses the reliability of the Gospels, including some of the key arguments from my book Christobiography. You might find it useful for summarizing some points or sharing with others. (I know, I am writing a lot on this topic right now. I will probably be posting more on 1 Peter, etc., eventually … 🙂 If you are a recent subscriber and are getting just the new posts but want more Bible studies, see the menu bar on the side of the home page. The archives contain scores of Bible studies on various topics.)
Yeshaya Gruber from Israel interviews Craig. This is the final session of the interview: https://ibccourses.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Roundtable/Keener/Craig10.mp4
Christianity Today kindly posted Chris Reese’s interview of me regarding my new book, Christobiography, here. (The following is a sample of my answer to his first question)
Given what we know about disciples in antiquity, and given the relatively brief span of time between Jesus’s public ministry and the first written accounts that we know about, historians should expect genuine reports of events and teachings of Jesus to dominate in the gospels.
As a Christian, I personally affirm more than that, but I believe that even on purely historical grounds, we should expect most accounts in the gospels to reflect genuine events in Jesus’s life or genuine teachings of his.
Part 8 of interview with Yeshaya Gruber: https://ibccourses.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Roundtable/Keener/Craig8.mp4