Can you trust the gospels?

Tuesdays, 7:30pm, Salvation Army, High Street, with Robin Plant

A Churches Together in Ramsgate Course

Almost everything we know about Jesus comes from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. But how can we be sure that what they tell us is reliable? Where did they get their information from? And why should we prefer these four Gospels to others that never made it into the Bible?

10^th May              What in the (ancient) world is a Gospel?

17^th May              Chinese whispers or eyewitness testimony?

24^th May              Have the texts been tampered with?

31^st May               The Fab Four: What makes them special?

Robin Plant has a Ph.D. in Old Testament from Edinburgh University. From 2010–2012 he was director of graduate studies at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek,
Croatia, and has been a visiting lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, St.
Augustine’s College of Theology and the Maryvale Institute, Birmingham. He is an elder at Newington Free Church, Ramsgate.