What Jesus Said |
In the Gospels (the four accounts of Jesus’ life in the bible) Jesus says that:
The gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) claim that Jesus is God living on earth as a human. So if the Gospels are right about Jesus, then we can trust the bible, because he says it has all been written by God. If the Gospels are trustworthy then the Bible is God’s word. |
"But that’s a big “if”! Can we trust the Gospels?"
FIVE REASONS WHY WE CAN... |
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The Gospels Claim to be HistoryThey Claim to be fact - not fairy tales. Luke begins his Gospel by saying that he’s carefully investigated everything”, by interviewing “those who from the first were eye witnesses.” (Luke 1 v3,2).
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The Gospel Claims are backed up by eye witnessesMost of the New testament was written within a generation of Jesus’ life. So it would have been easy for people to say: “I was there, and that bit didn’t happen”> One New testament write, Paul, said that after Jesus died and rose back to life, he “appeared to more than five hundred… most of whom are still living” (1 Corinthians 15v6). None of them said: “No, this is made up!"
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The Gospels we read are authenticWe have enough very early New testament to know that what we read is the same as what was written 2000 years ago (though it has been translated from Greek to English, of course!)
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The Gospels are backed up by historical researchThe more we find out about that era, the more we discover that the Gospels’ details check out with what non-Christian writers (such as the Roman, Tacitus; and the Jew, Josephus) wrote.
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The Gospel writers suffered for their claimsJesus first followers (including the Gospel writers) were tortured and even killed for what they said. they were willing to die for their claims about Jesus. Why die for something you know is a lie because you made it up?
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