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Summary: Lies briefly rebuked
Review: The fact that the resurrection stories are claimed to contradict each other may seem so to someone who does not take the time to actually look at the evidence. One needs to not only look at the Biblical text and find that they are simply subtly different, as one would find in any group relaying a similar story. We also have to look at the culture of the time and other historical works - that are purely works of historians. Authors such as Josephus and a few other historians from the time period and the surronding regions. When one fully looks at the evidence, Biblical, historical, archaeological, scientific, and philosophical this book is greatly upheld.
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Summary: A Testimony Of The Testimony
Review: This is an excellent book for all types of people, Christians and non-Christian alike. It is especially good for those who believe they are the intellectual type. I work in the legal field, and so I found this book to be a clincher for even the most hard hearted skeptics. If they would just set their bias aside and truly absorb what this author is saying, there won't be any doubt that the evidence of the Evangelist is reliable. This is a book I challenge my friends and coworkers to read because we deal with evidence people submit daily, seeking a benefit through this government agency. We are legally bound to recognize all applicants are "prima facie" eligible until proven otherwise through testimony and evidence. And so, we are trained to recognize what makes good evidence and what makes bad evidence. The Gospels are good evidence, unimpeachable. I have actually gone back and purchased additional copies of this book so that I can give them out to people who need to hear it from a legal scholar with impeccable credentials. It's a very easy book to read. It can be digested in a matter of two or three hours, and its inexpensive as well, costing less than ten bucks. Simon Greenleaf lays everything out so well, it is truly easy to follow his logic. If you are a skeptic about the Bible, doubting its authenticity, this book will explain to you why you should accept the Gospel accounts as fact, because their testimony is clear. Jesus is God incarnate as the Gospels attest. If you read this book, then this knowledge about Jesus is now in your head, and I pray that God the Holy Spirit will place it in your heart.
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Summary: More -- And Less -- Than Advertised
Review: This volume isn't exactly what one would expect from the title on the cover. The book is not an extended analysis of the Gospels, but a collection of essays, only one of which (Greenleaf's "Examination of the Testimony of the Evangelists") makes any attempt at rigorous analysis of the Gospels. Greenleaf adds a second essay on "An Account of the Trial of Jesus," and this slim volume is rounded out by "The Jewish Account of the Trial of Jesus" by Joseph Salvador, "The Trial of Jesus before Caiaphas and Pilate" by M. Dupin, and "The Various Versions of the Bible" by Constantine Tischendorf.
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Summary: Pot calling the kettle black
Review: What of the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of Mr. Greenleaf? According to all accounts, his thinking was irrevocably changed as a result of a detailed examination of the Holy Scriptures. His testimony of faith is a challenge to all thinking persons to make an honest and diligent search for the truth. Our propensity for deceit came about as a result of the Fall, and it is due to that fallability that Man willingly rejects God. A leap in the dark is not what is needed, but rather a desire to know the truth.
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Summary: Response to neece@incom.net
Review: What of the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of Mr. Greenleaf? According to all accounts, his thinking was irrevocably changed as a result of a detailed examination of the Holy Scriptures. His testimony of faith is a challenge to all thinking persons to make an honest and diligent search for the truth. Our propensity for deceit came about as a result of the Fall, and it is due to that fallability that Man willingly rejects God. A leap in the dark is not what is needed, but rather a desire to know the truth.
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