
2025 BONUS The Christmas Narratives
From Still Unbelievable! by Still Unbelievable
December 1, 2025 · 24 min
About this episode
Matthew reads the Christmas narratives from the gospels, highlighting the embellishments in the stories.
In in this episode of Still Unbelievable! Matthew reads the Christmas narratives from the gospels. To show that as each gospel is written, the story gets embellished. Unlike the death and resurrection narratives, see our 2025 Easter bonus episodes for thoughts on those, link in the show notes. The birth story of Jesus is not told in all four of the gospels. Like the Easter episodes, we will be looking at each of the gospels in the order written, which means starting with Mark chapter 1. 1) Easter 2025 Bonus episodes on the death and resurrection of Jesus https://youtu.be/f31UpncgmQk https://youtu.be/wgZhMPE-kx0 https://youtu.be/bvtp-REH9oo 2) extra biblical account of the birth of Jesus https://earlychristianwritings.com/infancyjames.html#google_vignette Still Unbelievable! book: https://amzn.eu/d/fmsN1Cw Apostate book: https://amzn.eu/d/9RIUZYx To contact us, email: reasonpress@gmail.com our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@reasonpress2901 Our Theme Music was written for us by Holly, to support her and to purchase her music use the links below: https://hollykirstensongs.com/ https://hollykirsten.bandcamp.com/
People in this episode
Host: Matthew
Topics covered
- Christmas narratives
- gospels
- embellishment
- birth story of Jesus
- religious texts
Keywords
- Christmas
- gospels
- Jesus
- narratives
- embellishment
- religion
- spirituality
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: YouTube, Holly, reasonpress@gmail.com, earlychristianwritings.com
Books & works: Still Unbelievable!, Apostate, The Christmas Narratives, Easter 2025 Bonus episodes
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