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Are His
Claims Real?
"There
is more evidence for the reliability of the New Testament writings than
any 10 pieces of classical literature put together."
 Was
Jesus' claim to be God nothing more than a figment of the early church's
imagination? Something added to the Bible by Jesus' followers? It's an
interesting idea, but most scholars believe that at least three of the
Bible's gospel accounts (Matthew, Mark and Luke) were written within a
generation of Jesus. Many eyewitnesses would still have been alive to
disagree with these first century writings. But there is no evidence of
that occurring.
In fact, there is
more evidence for the reliability of the New Testament writings than any
10 pieces of classical literature put together. Historians of ancient
Greece, for example, have to rely on only eight manuscripts of Thucydide's
History of the Peloponnesian War with the earliest one written some 1,300
years after the originals. Biblical scholars meanwhile, have more than
20,000 New Testament manuscripts at their disposal, with several copied
less than 200 years after Jesus' birth.
Lastly, there is no
question that the early Christians believed in and worshipped one of their
own countrymen as God in human form. It's never been seriously disputed.
Which leaves us to wonder at such behaviour. If, in fact, Jesus never
claimed to be God, what were a bunch of monotheists (believers in only
one god) doing falling at his feet?
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