Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John

Historically speaking, theologians and other scholars have taken one of three positions regarding the historicity or historical accuracy of the Gospels. These are:

The Gospels are viable records of history, examined and approved by members of the apostolic body and received as such by leaders of the churches they founded;

The Gospels are a mixture of the historical and the unhistorical, the posture adopted by the nineteenth-century liberal scholars;

The Gospels are so slanted theologically and so much a product of the early Christian imagination that they should not be regarded as a source of information about the Christ but about the early Church

The synoptic Gospels share many similarities in both writing and depictions of Jesus. The authorship of First John, however, remains a matter of debate. Most Christian theologians agree that the inspiration of the Holy Spirit was very much a guiding hand in the composition of these Gospels, which are dated sometime circa 100 A.D. (Hills 1996, 71). Christ as ôthe Heavenly One come down to earth, the eternal Son of the Father made fles

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