Reliability of the Gospel: First Source Eyewitness Accounts
Channel: Grace Church on the Mount
Date: 2017-04-24

Some critics of the NT assert that the Gospels were really a type of “folk literature” and that Christian communities over time felt free to embellish and shape to match their preferences.  Which reduces the gospel accounts to little more than fables. 

But unlike fairy tales, the Gospel accounts were written down within the lifetimes of those who had been eyewitnesses to the events they recorded.

Read the Gospels and we often see the names of those eyewitnesses like Simon of Cyrene, his sons Rufus and Alexander, Cleopas, and Malchus.  The citing of 1st sources, as with any good historian, standard practice.

Do you see the difference between the Gospel record and “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away”?