This week I start comparing Mark 6:1-6 and Luke 4:16-30. These passages portray Jesus being rejected in his home town of Nazareth, but there is at least a weak prima facie case from narrative order that they describe different events. Plus they don't really sound all that much alike.
Something I meant to say in the video (but forgot to say) is that we don't want to reach for achronological narration as our only tool. It is one tool, but the possibility of more than one broadly similar event is another legitimate tool. And being a non-inerrantist, I would also say that the possibility of good-faith error is another tool. In this case, I think the best conclusion is that these were two broadly similar events.
I list five similarities in a way that makes it sound like the two passages are uncannily similar. If that were true, it would be strained to think of these as different events. But upon further examination, the appearance of uncanny similarity disappears. Watch or listen to find out why!
I wanted to clarify that when I refer to the ugliness of my personal web page, that is no one else's fault but my own. Erik Manning of @TestifyApologetics helped me to fix a security certificate issue and to get Google off my back, but he is *in no way* responsible for the appearance of the website. I "designed" it myself, which is why it looks like it was made in 1990 by a couple of 10th graders. Eventually I'll have a better site built!