Ehrman & Licona: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? Part 1

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On Wednesday, February 21 at 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM EST Professor Bart D. Ehrman and Dr. Michael R. Licona met at the Bailey Performance Center, Morgan Hall (Kennesaw Campus) Kennesaw, GA to debate: Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? Ratio Christi and KSU History Club hosted the event. Moderator was Dr. Brian Swain, a historian of the ancient Mediterranean world. He teaches courses on the Greek, Roman, and medieval pasts and on pre-modern history more broadly at Kennesaw State University. As part of the debate there was a open mic Q and A session with the audience. Book sales and signing followed.

At one point, Licona argues that sharing fake news occasionally on Facebook does not make you unreliable, equating this logic with the diverse issues found in the Gospels. Bart comments that if the Gospel's use of common and consistent geographic references makes them accurate is much like stating since Harry Potter got London correct that must mean Harry Potter is reliable. The debate is riveting to the very end.

Program discussed on Bart Ehrman's Foundation Blog: http://ehrmanblog.org/?p=14963

Bart D. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He came to UNC in 1988, after four years of teaching at Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. A graduate of Wheaton College (Illinois), Professor Ehrman received both his Masters of Divinity and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, where his 1985 doctoral dissertation was awarded magna cum laude.

Michael R. Licona (Ph.D., University of Pretoria and M.A. in Religious Studies from Liberty University) is a New Testament scholar, Christian apologist and historian. He currently officiates as an associate professor in theology at Houston Baptist University. Licona is a member of the Evangelical Philosophical Society, the Institute for Biblical Research, and the Society of Biblical Literature.

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