#149 Can we trust the Christmas story? Responding to Bart Ehrman
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Is There a Reliability of the New Testament?
There's no neutral ground from which you can declare that you're seeing everything clearly. All history is written by people who have agendas. I mean, David Hume, the great skeptic in the middle of the 18th century, he had massive agendas. Edward Gibbon, who wrote the decline of fall of the Roman Empire, he had a huge agenda. Do we think that Josephus, the Jewish historian is objective? No, he's got all kinds of stuff going on. That doesn't mean that nothing happened.
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