
COT-Classics Episode # 94
Christianity On Trial
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How to Get the Unbeliever to Understand the History of Jesus Christ
In the eighteenth century, there was a bishop by the name of whatley who was very bothered by hume's arguments against christianity. Hume said you can't trust those gospel writers because everything they say is prejudiced. Whatley pointed out that all the information we have about napoleon comes either from the english or the french. The reasoning that hume used against the gospels over here would also tear up our knowledge ofNapoleon. I employed a technique somewhat like this when i debated the head of the philosophy department of the university of british columbia a number of years ago. And so i showed that the historical evidence for jesus christ is better than the
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