Is the Christmas Story Historical? [Blog Audio]

Is the Christmas story historically reliable?

It’s often presented with an almost “mythic” quality. It’s no wonder then that skeptics are quick to write it off as nothing more than an invention of early Christian imagination. 

But if you take time to really look at the Christmas story in Luke’s gospel, you’ll find the markings of a carefully composed record of history.

Aside from being a medical doctor, Luke was also a trained historian whose New Testament writings show all of the signatures of a carefully constructed historical document. 

Skeptics claim that Luke got it wrong about the census. They see this as proof that Jesus’ birth account wasn’t historical. 

A closer look, however, gives us some of our best reasons for accepting it as historical fact.

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