Wesley Huff

So when some of these stories are told, they're being told within a lifetime where there could have been

individuals who say the story of the feeding of the 5,000, that's a lot of people.

So there's a lot of witnesses to this particular event.

So if you're writing this down, there's an aspect of there are people out there who could verify what is being said, at least orally, not necessarily like literarily.

Likewise, what we have in the gospel accounts, particularly after Jesus' death, when the disciples...

proclaiming his resurrection, they go back to Jerusalem, which is the scene of the crime.

So they go back to the exact place where Jesus was crucified and start telling people he was risen from the dead.

If there is some aspect of, say, disingenuousness in making up a story, don't go back to the place where everybody could have seen that thing happen to that degree, right?

So in one sense, Chinese whispers is...

is a faulty analogy in that it's less like one person whispering into another's ear and more like 100 people in a room all saying, communicating the thing verbally and then getting the other people to repeat it back to them and then corroborating with the other individuals of what's going on.

Now, I think your point in the story of your grandmother and the letter is a good one.

How do we remember things?

Do you remember 9-11?

Yes, I do.

Yes, and I was in the UK at the time.

Could you tell me a little bit more vividly what you were doing on 9-11 compared to your grandmother and the letter?

Yeah, me too.

So whereas I couldn't tell you much of what else happened during an average day in that year, I could tell you what happened on September 11th, 2001.

And that's because of the nature of what was going on.

And I think when we're talking about the gospel stories in particular, first you have what I genuinely believe are eyewitness accounts from at least the source information coming from a group who would have heard Jesus say,