ARE THE GOSPELS RELIABLE - PART 4

                                        ARE THE GOSPELS           RELIABLE?

 PART 4

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NAVIGATION

Biblical archaeologist William Albright,
concluded on the basis of his research,
that all the New Testament Books were
written while most of the apostles were
still alive. He wrote:

"We can already say emphatically, that there
is now no longer any solid basis for dating 
any Book after about 80 A.D., two full
generations before the date of between  130
and 150 A,D, given by the more radical  New
Testament critics of  today."

Elsewhere, Albright put the writing of the
entire New Testament at, very probably, 
sometime between  50 A.D. and   75 A.D.

The notoriously skeptical 
John A.T. Robinson
dates the New Testament
earlier than even most
conservative scholars. In
Re dating the New Testament, Robinson
asserts that most of the
New Testament was written between 40 and 65 A.D.  That puts
its writing as early as seven years after 
Christ lived. If that is true, any historical
errors would have been immediately exposed
by both eyewitnesses and the enemies of
Christianity.

So, let us take a look at the trail of clues
that takes us from the original documents to
our New Testament copies today.

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