In This Episode Tim Staples discusses the evidence for Jesus’ birth on December 25, why scholars date early Christian documents the way they do, concerns about how these dates are presented in discussions with atheists, and the reasoning behind Jesus allowing demons to enter a herd of pigs in Mark 5.
Questions Covered:
- 13:07 – How do we know that the birth of Jesus was on December 25?
- 21:28 – Why do we use the phrasing “the earliest documents were written X year” instead of referring to them as dates close to the life of Jesus. It almost makes it sound like we discredit some of the documents especially when talking to atheists?
- 38:28 – Why did Jesus allow the demons to enter the pigs in Mark 5?
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