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Yes. What is a non-Christian Vietnamese man to do? Everyone thinks they are. If we were simply speaking about mathematics it would be a very short conversation. But we aren’t simply speaking about mathematics in this thread; we’re speaking about theology. That’s fair but it doesn’t take...

No one and nothing is ever going to disprove the Bible. Why would anyone who self-identifies as a Christian suggest that someone or something will?

Bye bye synoptic Gospels? Please see my posts where I have, if you really are wondering and want to find out.

We know that Luke accompanied Paul on some of his trips. Don’t we? (Maybe he made that up, too?) He spoke with Paul and others on those trips and Paul may have been the primary source for the information about things which happened in that time period when Luke wasn’t present with him. Luke may...

I don’t know what makes you think that. And so was everyone else who heard what Zechariah said? How do you know that all of them were dead? Jesus was born c. 4 B.C. Luke’s second book (Acts) can be dated to approximately 62 A.D. -> Luke wrote his first book sometime before 62 A.D. but how...

Malawi. This isn’t a photograph that I took, and I don’t recognize the woman in the picture, but the place of worship where she is standing is more beautiful to me than the magnificent buildings designed and constructed by the skilled hands of man. I’m not putting them down in the least; I’m...

Luke is an eye-witness of some of the events (his second book, Acts). For those which he isn’t (his first book, the Gospel) he reliably reports what those who are told him. His source material is better than gold. It’s impeccable.

Yes. So too do the poet’s readers.

Taking Josephus over Luke is a choice that I wouldn’t make or advise. He provides some valuable historical perspective but his deficiencies - his inaccuracies and embellishments - should cause us to pause. It is Josephus, not Luke, who I would question as being a “good historian”. “Was Josephus...

I‘m saddened by your decision. Poetry doesn’t have to be liked in order to have value.

It’s hard for you to believe Luke is a reliable witness. Take him off the stand. Who else is it hard for you to believe is a reliable witness?

Luke is a trustworthy witness.