Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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Here I'm anticipating a possible criticism--namely, that no matter what the details are like or even could be like in the Gospels, I'm always going to say that they indicate truthfulness or at least don't constitute any evidence worth speaking of against truthfulness.

I give three categories (and I stipulate these aren't exhaustive) of kinds of details that *could be* in a document, but aren't found in the Gospels, that would raise suspicion that the document is at least partially fictionalized. The categories are lavishness, consistency, and infodump. Watch to find out what I mean by each of those and to hear examples.

Here is my longer video on the Aethiopika by Heliodorus:

youtube.com/watch?v=esp1dPJqZ4s

Here is my video on arguments from silence:

youtube.com/watch?v=W0VWCdw4epk&t=4s

Here is my video on Gospel details in the Goldilocks zone in which I read an example of consistency in narrative detail in fiction:

youtube.com/watch?v=CW1Z_pFPr7c&t=376s

Let me know if I missed a link to something that I promised to link.