I've intended to write a response to Newsweek's feature on Christmas, The Birth of Jesus, Faith and History: How the Story of Christmas Came to Be, in which Jon Meacham claims that a critical, historical assessment of the gospel narratives leads to the conclusion that the Christmas stories are works of fiction and propaganda. Meacham cloaks his extreme skepticism by affirming that the story is still meaningful even if it is false. This, of course, is just plain old Christian liberalism. Meacham completely ignores those scholars who use the tools of crtical, historical investigation and believe that the gospels are historically reliable.
Today I found an excellent series of posts written by Mark Roberts, a pastor in Irvine, CA, who has a Ph.D. in Christian Origins from Harvard. Rather than write a response myself, I will just link to his series.
markdroberts.com
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