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“Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.” - Charles Spurgeon

My advice: Tune out the conflicting and confusing voices in these threads, for now. Continue with your Bible reading. Steady as she goes.

When did the professional excavation of the land of Israel begin? I read an interesting book last year about Biblical archaeology - Under Jerusalem: the buried history of the world’s most contested city, written by Andrew Lawler. What did people do before the age of Biblical archaeology? “In...

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you have.

You’re lacking in understanding. I’m not the one casting doubt on the writing. (I’ve defended the writing, and always will.) It was a rhetorical question put by me to the one (a Christian) who is doubting. It was for the purpose of causing him to think about what he is doing and where it is...

Yes. All dragged to the ground and trampled on in this once pleasurable, now miserable, thread.

Biblical archaeology is interesting and useful but it doesn’t prove (nor does it disprove) the faith.

Commentaries are written by serious thinking people. I take it that you’ve consulted many of them, long before speaking with me about it. If they haven’t been able to help you resolve the doubts that you have then what is the probability that I will? I’m going to tell you what they’ve already...

Luke mentions that other accounts were written before he wrote his. He had knowledge of them and, presumably, access to them. So, in addition to speaking directly with eye-witnesses himself, he had books on the life to draw from. Mistakes made by his sources? The sources fall into two...

That’s good enough for me. I believe him. I have no reason not to. What about the others? If they had begun their Gospels the way that Luke began his, would you have the same trouble believing them that you have with believing him? I don’t think divine inspiration disclosed to him that tiles...

What makes what I think about how apparent contradictions are best harmonized of greater or equal value to you than what someone else thinks about how apparent contradictions are best harmonized? If / when you see what I think about harmonizing them you will find that I haven’t blazed a new trail.

I don’t doubt the accuracy of his sources, nor do I doubt his accuracy in reporting them. I don’t see his writing as an “either or” proposition. I suspect that he was provided with a lot more information that he didn’t use and that God inspired him to know which pieces of information were...

A simple search should show you where the posts that I’ve made concerning anything related to the synoptic Gospels are located. I think you’re sincere and I appreciate your interest in what I’ve said about them, but why are you interested in them?

I’ve always been talking in this conversation about the reliability of Luke and the Bible. In the first four verses of his Gospel, Luke tells us how he obtained the information.

The synoptic Gospels or my posts? The former, yes; the latter, yes.