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the New Testament records a total of twenty-two apostles, not just the original twelve apostles,
Jonathan Welton • Understanding the Whole Bible: The King, The Kingdom and the New Covenant
The early Christians believed that Jesus was Israel’s Messiah, not, as some Jewish apologists today have absurdly said, “the Christian Messiah.”
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
The men and women who made up the nucleus of the church weren’t simply believers in an abstract philosophy or even faithful followers of a great leader; they were eyewitnesses of an event.
Andy Stanley • Deep and Wide
Healing, forgiveness, renewal, the twelve, the new family and its new defining characteristics, open commensality, the promise of blessing for the Gentiles, feasts replacing fasts, the destruction and rebuilding of the Temple: all declared, in the powerful language of symbol, that Israel’s exile was over, that Jesus was himself in some way responsi
... See moreN. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
The first great church historian, Eusebius (ca. AD 260–341), as well as many other very early church fathers, left us a valuable record about the genuineness of the Gospels from which the church derives its information. Eusebius called the four canonical Gospels “the holy four Gospels” that were never once doubted by the orthodox church as coming f
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