Quiet Time Notes

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New Testament Historical Crosshairs

March 4th, 2025
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Is the New Testament a historical novel or novel history?

1. Independent non-Chirstian writers collectively reveal a storyline similar to the New Testament
2. New Testament writers endured persecution, torture and death. Why would they do this for a fictional story?
3. Novelist usually do not risk using the names of real people for the main character. Those people can deny the story and destroy the credibility of the authors
4. New Testament has nine authors. It would require a grand conspiracy over 20-50 years.

Each author describe the same event with harmonization and no divergence of details

Unless you saw the event yourself, you can not be any more certian that those historical events actually happened

Key Phrase: Each author of the new testament describe the same event with harmonization and no divergence of details

Notes from: I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Frank Turek.