ARE THE GOSPELS RELIABLE - PART FOUR

                                       ARE THE GOSPELS        RELIABLE ?

    PART FOUR

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

He wrote:  "We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any Book after about 80 AD, two full generations before the date of  between 130 and 150 AD  given by the more radical New Testament critics of today. "  Elsewhere, Albright put the writing of the entire New Testament at somewhere between about  50 AD  and 75AD.

The notoriously skeptical scholar, John A. T. Robinson, dates the New Testament even earlier than even most conservative scholars . In Redating the New Testament, Robinson asserts that most of the New Testament was written between 40 AD and 65 AD. That puts its writing as early as 7 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 look at the trail of clues that takes us from the original documents to our New Testament copies today.


next post tomorrow  16th July