On Thursday night I got to watch a debate that I had been looking forward to for a number of months,
Religion Soup hosted at
Saint Mary's University by the
Navigators. This was the first of what is shaping up to be an annual event. What a first debate it was, we listened to the arguments for and against the historical reliability of the gospels.
Bart Ehrman argued that they were not reliable;
Craig A. Evans argued that they were.
Before Ehrman began his opening statement he asked two questions. First he asked how many Christians were in the audience, to which a large percentage of hands went up. Then second he asked how many people wanted to see him get thumped, to which a similarly large percentage of hands went up.
I suspect that a similarly large percentage of people went home disappointed. In my opinion Ehrman won the debate.
