CONSIDER THIS: Luke Deserves a Place Among the GOAT Historians

Luke the physician is the author of two books in the New Testament, the Gospel bearing his name and the Book of Acts, which documents the growth of the Christian church in the earliest days following the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

He was a physician but he is best-known as the traveling companion of Paul the Apostle on the great missionary journeys that spread Christianity from its origins in Jerusalem throughout the Middle East, Greece, Rome and beyond. Luke’s Gospel documents the life and significance of Jesus, while his Book of Acts documents Paul’s journeys throughout the Mediterranean world.

How good a historian was Luke? In the following 5:56 video, Erik Manning of Testify addresses the claims of critics who argue Luke is not a credible historical source and presents a persuasive case that in fact Luke was quite possibly the Greatest Of All Time (GOAT):

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