The Jesus Mystery!

Find below some comments of mine after I had the joy and er privilage of looking at some of the nonsense broadcast recently about Jesus. The budget and the volume of material increases every year, it is truly appalling.

I might just sqweem and sqweem and sqweem until I'm sick. I have been looking at some programmes  about Jesus that air at this time of year. The latest was Jesus -The man behind the myths.

Many of these programmes wheel out John Dominic Crossan ( a truly unbelieving academic ) as if he is the only authoritative advice to be had. If the viewer is lucky they may get Bart Ehrman , without a doubt the greatest academic opponent of Christianity alive today. Oh joy of joys   we had both in this programme.

The scene was set a young eager explorer type was to find out for himself who Jesus really was. The journey would take him to Bethlehem (the stories aren't true Mr Crossan says) The Church of the Holy Sepulchre , Qumran, Nag Hammadi  (once Nag Hammadi was mentioned I knew where this was going!) and finally St Antony's monastery.

Did Jesus exist? A TV show and a debate with a feisty American atheist!!

As some of you know for five years I had the privilege of being able to cover apologetics material on Revelation TV.  Over on my blog I have been feeding links to the programmes. Covering subjects such as 'are the right books in the Bible', 'How did we get the Bible' ,' 'How do we know Jesus existed', 'What is the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus', and apologetics in Acts. In all of these programmes I tried hard to demystify the language and explanations. And to use simplified language. I will put the links on here over a period of time , I hope for some of you they will prove to be useful. Here is the link for the evidence for the existence of Jesus.

Covering similar material  I also had the privilege to be on the 'Unbelievable' programme a few times.  The first time I 'engaged' with a feisty American atheist/agnostic   know as B Strong (Brett Strong). The programme bore more resemblance to a brawl in a bar than an intellectual debate. Anyway here it is....it is VERY entertaining!