31-05-2025, 06:56 PM
(31-05-2025, 06:46 PM)pinkpanther Wrote: My respond was it was 2 accounts written in different times and different authors... eyewitness account might differ from what the disciple witnesses.
When you bring in Wallace, he will destroy you.
Detective Wallace’s conclusion after reading the Gospel accounts — AS AN ATHEIST— is that the eyewitness testimonies of the disciples are reliable. He put his biases against the supernatural aside, and he concluded that what happened to Jesus was that he really resurrected. Wallace then realized Christianity is true, and he’s now a believer.
He notes that all inquiries and examinations of the truth have unique deficiencies and there is no perfect investigation, so we must draw on reasonable inferences.
Since the Christian worldview is based on eyewitness testimonies, skeptics focus their attacks on their reliability. This is where Christian case makers need to reveal the strength of our case (as listed above). Christians have good reasons to trust that the Gospel account are reliable.
I quoted Wallace, who said you should not trust the NT 100%. But he also said you should not be a total skeptic.