Jesus Christ Is Real God

But, Can We Rely On The Records Of His Life And Teachings?

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Everyone who doesn’t believe in the Bible nor Jesus Christ, must give a lot of efforts to dismantle the reliability of the Gospels, so that the teaching about Jesus as the one and only Son of God will be continuously questioned. Let’s take Dan Brown as an example, his novel DaVinci Code put a heavy stress on this subject, questioning the truth about Jesus’ identity. By telling a story, a very different story precisely, about someone that was real existed in history, Brown seemingly wants us to think that the so-called Christian faith was nothing but a lie.

Off course, Brown has stated that his novel was only a fiction, but telling a very different story about the real person and the real institution (i.e. Christian Institution), is obviously a deception.

On the other side, Peter Stuhlmacher, an excellent professor emeritus at the Protestant Theology Faculty in Tubingen, supports the fundamental accuracy and reliability of the Gospel accounts.

He once spoke to Time Magazine for an article on the identity of Jesus and on that time Peter said: “The biblical texts as they stand are the best hypothesis we have until now to explain what really happened.”

Peter was not alone about this, another professor from Denver Seminary named Craig Bloomberg admitted that Gospels are actually anonymous. However, according to him, the traditional testimony of early church has left us no doubt that Matthew, a tax collector and disciple of Jesus Christ, was the author of the first Gospel in the New Testament. And John Mark, a close related person of Peter the Apostle, wrote another Gospel, which we then call Mark

There is also no doubt about Luke, a friend of Paul the Apostle, as the author of Gospel Luke and the Act of the Apostle. While the fourth Gospel was undoubtedly written by John, one of Jesus’ disciples.

Bloomberg also emphasized that all the Gospel are obviously based on eyewitness material.

This is not off course merely based on the testimony and statement from scholar of our modern age. For the authorship of Mark and Matthew was also affirmed by Papias in 125 AD, and in 180 AD Irenaeus, one of the church’s fathers, confirmed this.

We will get through with this topic in the next writing, but at least up to now, we can be sure that our faith is not standing alone without any strong basis. We are not the children of our age who suddenly wake up to an idea that the Bible is the real Word of God and Jesus Christ, who is the center of Bible’s teaching is the real God. This believe that we have, has been standing since far back of history and has faced so many odds along the way. And as the history continues, this believe still stands unchangeably. May God bless you.