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Clear searchSimon Greenleaf · Legal examination of testimony · 1846
…ness of the Gospels. This is a work of nineteenth-century legal apologetics, not a modern historical or legal consensus. Greenleaf assumes traditional Gospel authorship and uses rules of evidence from his own period; neither courtroom analogy nor professional reputation can prove…
View recommendation →How an openly transmitted text survived copying, criticism, and centuries of examination
…ot show a pristine physical chain untouched by human fallibility. It shows something more historically testable: a text copied widely enough that errors can be compared, alterations can be exposed, and the wording can be recovered. The question is not whether the Bible has endure…
Read article →Which Gospel does the Qur'an affirm?
…hat Christianity and Islam disagree. It is that Islam appeals to a Gospel which it cannot historically produce, while rejecting the Gospel which history actually supplies. The strongest Islamic case The Muslim position should be stated in its strongest recognisable form. The Qur'…
Read article →Testing Islam's evidence for divine revelation
…s book in order to be a human one. It may possess beauty, force, memorable recitation and historical importance without being the speech of God. The task is to identify exactly where the evidence crosses—or fails to cross—the distance between the remarkable and the miraculous. Wh…
Read article →What 'yea and Amen' in Christ means for Israel and the covenants
…yes, and through Him believers voice the Amen to the glory of God. Paul's point is divine reliability. Christ demonstrates that God's word is trustworthy. The passage says nothing about promises being transferred from one recipient to another. It establishes their certainty and t…
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