The books known as Gospels were written by some of Jesus' twelve closest disciples (Latin word for "students") and/or their associates. Luke may have been the only Gentile among the Bible authors – but he was a doctor, so who knows? [ Joke by David Brickner ]
I take it Luke and the other associates conducted a lot of interviews. If you do the same sort of thing today, it is obvious that the truth can be seen and conveyed through many different perspectives. That's observable in news reporting and court testimony: even if all the people have the right facts, it won't come out identically the same through everyone's mouth.
Let's do an Activity! Well, I've actually done it already, but I'll give you all the tools to do it yourself:
- A Link to download the four resurrection accounts -- here
- A Printer and scissors -- umm...supply those yourself
After you go about it for some time on your own, you can check out my outcome / solution.
Another edit/addition:
I just got the book One Perfect Life by John MacArthur. The whole thing is basically this sort of "activity" that we just did – but with a lot more of the New Testament. Fitting verses and passages together to make a single narrative layout, it's totally clear that the resurrection accounts work together. You can clearly see that Mary of Magdala first came to the tomb alone when it was still dark and the other women arrived with their spices when the sun was up. And some point after "Mary M." came back to the tomb with Peter and John (and met Jesus), they all met up on the way back to the eleven.
We've seen that the record isn't contradictory – but did any of it really happen?
Listen to Dr. William Craig talk about Evidence for the Resurrection.
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