In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.

the miraculous” is the impossible. He knows that the witnesses were wholly incapable of examining the questions involved, that credulity had possession of their minds, that ‘the miraculous’ was expected, that it was their daily...

Moreover, it is not just that the early documents are silent about so much of Jesus that came to be recorded in the gospels, but that they view him in a substantially different way —...

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, far from being unreliable historians or merely clever inventors of myth and legend, reveal themselves to be the type of witnesses a lawyer dreams of.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

The reason we haven’t yet fully understood the Jesus story is that we are gospel-based rather than Bible-based Christians!

In my view, the gospels are true, not historically, but theologically, or, as I would argue, prophetically! What we have is, the Messiah’s history written in advance in story form.

The most ‘authoritative’ accounts of a historical Jesus come from the four canonical Gospels of the Bible. Note that these Gospels did not come into the Bible as original and authoritative from the authors themselves,...

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the...

I’ve never seen exquisite fallen beings, and I never shall see them, but such creatures as that painted Frenchwoman at the counter with the ringlets are vermin to my mind, and all fallen women are...

The story of the angel announcing what the church calls the immaculate conception, is not so much as mentioned in the books ascribed to Mark, and John; and is differently related in Matthew and Luke....

The Resurrection, and its consequences, were the ‘gospel’ or good news which the Christians brought: what we call the ‘gospels’, the narratives of Our Lord’s life and death, were composed later for the benefit of...

The synoptic Gospels of the New Testament manuscripts make us aware of Christ’s character and gives us a view of the ‘son-ship’ He modeled which flowed out of that Divine character.” ~R. Alan Woods [2013]

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.