Do Other Sources Back Up The Gospel Authors? (Podcast)

Are the New Testament authors the only sources we have for the life of Jesus? Are there any secondary sources that can give us information about what happened? What do they have to say? Do they help or hurt our case?

When a case goes to trial, we can look at secondary sources to see if the primary sources – meaning the eyewitnesses – are trustworthy. In this episode, we’ll look at some of the apostles’ contemporaries to see what they can tell us about the truthfulness of the eyewitness accounts.

Topics Covered In This Episode

• How multiple secondary sources demonstrate trustworthiness
• What the students of the apostles believed
• How secondary sources help in dating the primary sources

Resources Related To This Topic

• Cold-Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace
• External Evidence For The Bible
• Internal Evidence For The Bible
• Were The Gospel Authors Reliable?