March 12, 2006

Meditation:
For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made
known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
-- 2 Peter 1:16 (ESV)

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Quotation:
I have heard professing Christians of our own day speak as
though the historicity of the Gospels does not matter--all that
matters is the contemporary Spirit of Christ. I contend that
the historicity does matter, and I do not see why we, who live
nearly two thousand years later, should call into question an
Event for which there were many eye-witnesses still living at
the time when most of the New Testament was written. It was no
"cunningly devised fable" but an historic irruption of God
into human history which gave birth to a young church so
sturdy that the pagan world could not stifle or destroy it.
... J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Ring of Truth [1967]