Don't Let God Put You Off The Bible James Thomas

Did Jesus use an ancient Canaanite tradition to describe himself and predict the future? We'll take a look right here.

Why does Paul seem to know so little about Jesus? Well perhaps he did know a lot more than he was letting on to but had good reason to keep quiet. We'll find out.

Where is scholarship today with the age-old question of did Jesus really exist? The answer may well surprise you. So why not listen in to my latest podcast and we can put to bed some of those tired, old, hack arguments that are trotted out with depressing regularity on any media platform that will host them. So join me, James Thomas, for another eye-wateringly grueling episode of 'Don't Let God Put You Off The Bible!'

In my Christmas special we will be looking at some strange oddities in the Bible. Anomalies that often get overlooked in a casual read. We're going to take a peep behind the scenes to see what circumstances drove certain, little wrinkles in the biblical narrative.

What exactly did happen to launch the largest religious movement the world has ever seen 2000 years ago? Was there really a Messiah, or a son of God? Or was a myth born - a carefully crafted blend of beliefs and mythology expressly intended to form a world-conquering superman? We'll find out. And the probable answer might surprise you.

In 1947 the first of the dead Sea scrolls were discovered and promised to revolutionise our understanding of what was going on in Palestine just before and through to just after the time of Jesus. 73 years later and most of us have very little idea of what they revealed. Why?