Was Jesus a Real Person?
Chris Tilling
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29 February 2024
11 November 2025
A Conversation with Dr Chris Tilling
In this video Martin chats to New Testament theologian and author Dr Chris Tilling about who Jesus was, and how historically accurate the Bible is. Is Jesus in the Old Testament? Can the New Testament be trusted? Did Jesus really claim to be God? These are just a few of the questions we try and answer.
Here are a list of books that Chris recommends if you want to study this subject further:
Brant Pitre, The Case for Jesus: The Biblical and Historical Evidence for Christ (New York: Image, 2016)
A couple of books by Peter J. Williams
Can We Trust the Gospels? (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2018)
The Surprising Genius of Jesus: What the Gospels Reveal about the Greatest Teacher (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2023)
One on the divinity of Jesus in response to Bart Ehrman: Michael F. Bird, Craig A. Evans, Simon J. Gathercole, Charles H. Hill, and Chris Tilling, How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus’ Divine Nature. A Response to Bart Ehrman (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2014)