Unbelievable? The Christmas story: fact or fairytale? Lydia McGrew vs Jonathan Pearce

2020-12-19T00:00:00+00:00

Atheist blogger Jonathan Pearce is the author of ‘The Nativity: A Critical Examination’. He believes the birth narratives in Matthew and Luke are pious fiction. Christian thinker Lydia McGrew, author of ‘The Mirror or the Mask?’ defends the historicity of the Nativity accounts.

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