And if ya’ wanna know how Jesus goes, ya’ don’t cross-examine ‘the Bible’. This is where the new atheists are wrong. You gotta cross-examine the separate and independent book that Matthew wrote…all by itself, not ‘the Bible’…but Matthew. And when you’re done with Matthew, then you have to take on the separate and independent book that Mark wrote; Mark got his information from Peter who was an eyewitness. Then when you’re done with Mark you gotta go on to the separate and independent books that Luke wrote; Luke said he thoroughly investigated all of these things so we’d have an orderly account of what happened. And then you gotta get to the separate and independent books that John wrote; John was an eyewitness, and then you gotta get to the separate and independent books that Peter wrote; he wrote two letters and was an was an eyewitness.
And then you gotta get to the separate and independent book that James wrote. What would your brother have to do to convince you that he was the Son of God…? James shows up late in the story, he doesn’t show up until after the resurrection. He shows up as a leader of the church in Jerusalem. Josephus tells us that he was stoned to death; James dies believing that his brother is his Lord. Now go to the separate and independent books that Paul wrote; he wrote some of the earliest Christian literature. He steps into the pages of history as someone who hates Christians. He decides he’s gonna single-handedly put this new thing out of business. And Saul of Tarsus became the missionary and the advocate to the Gentiles.
And he (Paul) tells everyone that the whole thing rises and falls on the resurrection of Jesus ~ who punctuated everything that He said and taught when He rose from the dead. It only makes sense to tether the faith of Christianity to the EVENT that sparked the MOVEMENT that brought us the BIBLE.
