The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

THE DA VINCI MYTH VS THE GOSPEL TRUTH
Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty” (2 Peter
1:16). John said, speaking of Jesus, “the Word of life”:
“That which was from the beginning, which we have
heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have
looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning
the Word of life...we declare to you” (1 John 1:1, 3:b).
What’s more, we know how all of the apostles died.
They were crucified and stoned and cut up. All this was
done to them...supposedly for believing a legend which
hadn’t even yet developed, and which wasn’t going to
develop for another 100 or 150 years. That’s absurd. It
doesn’t deal with any of the factual information. It doesn’t
deal with what the Sanhedrin, the Jews, and Romans
would have done.
In his book, The Historical Jesus, Gary Habermas
points out that there are 18 different first or second century
pagan (or at least non-Christian) writers, who present
more than a hundred facts about the birth of Christ,
His life, teachings, miracles, crucifixion, resurrection and
ascension. These names were listed in the transcript of
our television special. They include Josephus, Tacitus,
Thallus, Phlegon, Pliny the Younger, Suetonius, Emperor
Trajan, Emperor Hadrian, the Talmud, Lucian, Mara Bar-
Serapion, and so on. 131 This is no legend that built up
over the centuries. It began at the beginning.
“MIRACLES DON’T HAPPEN”
Some people begin with the assumption that miracles
don’t happen; therefore, Christ could not have risen
from the dead. But this doesn’t explain any of the facts.
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