
Real History, Real People
A brief account of some of the real history and real people to be found in the New Testament.
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A brief account of some of the real history and real people to be found in the New Testament.
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Some reflections on why the canonical Gospels are in the Bible whereas the apocryphal Gospels are not.
Adrian Holloway tackles the question of whether we can trust what we read in the New Testament or should dismiss it as unsubstantiated myth.
Did Jesus claim or imply that he was anything more than a prophet? Or did his followers transform him into the Son of God many years later?
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Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?
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The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.