The Jimmy Akin Podcast | Episode 050 (September 8, 2025)

Liberal scholars like Bart Ehrman can make it sound like scholars have concluded that the Gospels were written in the late first (and perhaps early second) century. But they can also misrepresent things.

Some conservative scholars do date the Gospels to the late first century, and some liberal scholars date them quite early.

In this episode, Jimmy Akin reveals how one liberal scholar—Adolf von Harnack—followed the evidence and concluded that Matthew, Mark, and Luke were all written within just a few decades of the time of Christ!

Timecodes
00:00 – Coming Up
00:26 – Intro
00:47 – 1 Introduction
03:47 – 2 Who Was Adolf von Harnack?
06:16 – 3 Von Harnack on Acts
14:02 – 4 Von Harnack on Luke
15:01 – 5 Von Harnack on Mark
19:26 – 6 Von Harnack on Matthew
22:53 –7 Conclusions
23:51 – Closing/Outro
24:45 – End