Here’s Some Sneaky Good Reasons to Trust the Gospels’ Credibility

So you are listening to a friend telling you about their excellent Labor Day weekend adventures and he persists in telling you seemingly irrelevant details that don’t really add to the excitement or make you want to hear even more.

But think about this: If, instead of a friend telling you about a vacation well spent, the person to whom you are listening is a stranger you’ve met on a hike on a trail deep in a national forest in which you are lost? You’re going to want to know two things: The stranger actually knows the way to safety and every detail about how to get there.

Now, consider the four Gospels that tell the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, who described Himself as “the way, the truth and light, no man comes to the Father but through me.” (John 14:6). If He is that, you likely want to know as much about Him as you possibly can, but, since He walked the Earth 2,100 years ago, you also want assurance that those who wrote about Him can be trusted.

Erik Manning of Is Jesus Alive? is here in a 6:57 video to explain why one of the great signs that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John can be trusted to have told the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Jesus are a bunch of those details that might otherwise seem useless: