Doubts Aloud Podcast

Episode 29 – Show NotesThis month we welcomed well known British apologist Jonathan McLatchie to share the show with us. Jonathan is a stalwart of the Unbelievable show and can be found here:www. JonathanMcLatchie.comhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/apologeticacademy/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr6nvYFyoCk5DsRgYRrhC_gJonathan has seen the importance of demonstrating the reliability of the gospels and has researched the use of ‘Undesigned Coincidences’ to do this. It is where incidental details of a story given by two separate authors mesh together in an undersigned way. It leads to greater confidence that the authors are each speaking about the same factual event rather than a legend. Andrew and Jonathan talk first about the history of Undesigned Coincidences especially regarding the gospels, the approach dates back to the late 17thC and William Paley himself. There are dozens of these apparent coincidences that scholars and then apologists has used. But we go on a deep dive on just one, from the fe