Five Reasons Atheists Are Wrong about the Gospels

Have you been told that the stories of Jesus are unreliable – made up by desperate disciples wanting to make a new religion, decades after Jesus' death? Wasn't Jesus just a good teacher, and all the Christian stuff added on later by deluded people wanting to use him for their own ends?

Unfortunately, there are a lot of people around today who do believe this. They've often cobbled together their knowledge via a mish-mash of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code together with the ramblings of some extreme, and usually ill-informed, well-known atheists. It means that some people call the gospels 'fairytales' and dismiss the Bible as invention.

However, there are good reasons to think that the Gospel accounts of Jesus (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) are based on personal and eyewitness accounts from the time that he was alive. Here are five reasons why some of the popular ideas about Jesus and the Bible are wrong.... Read more