1. How relevant is the Bible today? This is an excerpt from a BBC show The Big Questions, Is the Bible Still Relevant Today. They have a Biblical Scholar, Dr. Francesca Stravrakopoulou who claims that there is very little fact in the Bible. She goes on to say that individuals such as Moses and King David never existed. Is that true?
Despite this scholar's claim that there was no real King David, there are findings that she did not mention:
The Tel Dan Inscriptions (Article)
The Big Stone Structure (Article)
Eilat Mazar's find may have been King David's Palace (Article)
Geologist Dr. Don R. Patton on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Archaeology (Video)
2. Bart D. Ehrman, a Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Religous Studies, author of Forged, Misquoting Jesus, God's Problem and Did Jesus Exist, has several presentations and debates available on YouTube.
If you do a Google search 'Who wrote the Bible', among the first hits will be an article by Ehrman, found here, informing us that the Bible is full of lies. There are many rebuttals, like the one by Dr. Joel McDurmon in The America Vision, found here.
The following two videos are from a debate in 2010 titled Does the Bible Misquote Jesus?
In the following video excerpt, Ehrman is responding to a question regarding whether the Gospels contain eye witness accounts. Ehrman describes why he and other Scholars do not believe the Gospels were written by any of the disciples or other eye witnesses:
In this second excerpt, Ehrman claims that we can not trust the Bible because we don't know who wrote it, nor can we prove that the New Testament has been accurately preserved. If you continue watching where this quote stops, Dr. Craig Evans does an excellent rebuttal.
3. Two more Bart D. Ehrman videos: In the first video from a debate in 2010 titled Does the Bible Misquote Jesus?, the purpose of showing this video is to discuss questions about where the Bible came from and the reliability of the Bible.
Here are a few excerpts from a presentation to students at Stanford Univer titled Misquoting Jesus, Scribes who Altered the Scriptures and Readers who may Never Know. He claims there are hundreds of thousands of errors in the Bible and while most of them are mere spelling errors and copy errors, some big error have lead him to reject God's existence.
This first excerpt is Ehrman describing the number of differences:
This second excerpt shows the first two of four big discrepancies Ehrman discusses:
Finally, a quick search on YouTube's top discussed videos will come up with several videos ridiculing Christianity, like this one:
