Tyndale House Cambridge is offering a free online class on the trustworthiness of the gospels, Can We Trust the Gospels?: Evidence for the Gospel’s Historical Reliability, taught by Dr. Peter J. Williams. The gospels class will take place on Saturday, September 26, from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Continue reading for more information on the class and click here to sign up.

The Gospels―Matthew, Mark, Luke, John―are four accounts of Jesus’s life and teachings while on earth. But should we accept them as historically accurate? What evidence is there that the recorded events happened?

The Master Class will cover the following five topics:

1) What are the earliest records of Christianity?
What do the earliest non-Christian sources (Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, Josephus) tell us about the beginnings of Christianity?

2) Did the Gospel writers know what they were writing about?
This session will examine the levels of knowledge of the Gospel writers and see that they were familiar with the things they wrote about.

3) How were Jesus’s teachings handed down?
This session will examine how Jesus’s teachings came to be recorded in the Gospels, including the languages and methods of his teaching.

4) How do skeptics explain the data?
Skeptical approaches to the Gospels often have predictable anatomy. This session will evaluate the method and claims of a leading Bible skeptic, Professor Bart D. Ehrman.

5) What about contradictions?
This session will consider one of the biggest objections to the truth of the Gospels today.