Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Standard Manual for Sunday School Workers
It is from the facts pertaining to the Author and first preachers Of Christianity that we learn their character and authority. The great supernatural facts in the his tory of Christ, for example, are his credentials. Believe me for the very works' he said on more than one occasion. The dogmatic and positive elements in the New Testament rest on the historical elements. Hence the importance Of an inquiry into the evidence on which those facts rest. It is not too much to say, an examina tion Of Christianity is, first Of all, an inquiry into the claims of that book to historical authenticity.
II. Historical authenticity. - The new testa ment consists Of twenty seven separate writings. These writings are commonly ascribed to eight writers: one to Matthew, one to Mark, two to Luke, five to John, four teen to Paul, two to Peter, one to James, and one to Jude. Christians hold (1) that there were such persons as these; (2) that they lived in the times when the things recorded in the writings took place; (3) that they had, generally, a first-hand knowledge Of these facts, and wrote them down in the book ascribed to them and called by their names; (4) that they told the truth when they wrote them. On What grounds do Christians hold these propositions?
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