The Resurrection # 2

   Many historians have recorded the history of the ancient world, men such as Homer, Josephus, Tacitus, Xenophon, Herodotus and Thucydides. More trustworthy than all these men, according to Robert J. Morgan is Luke, the writer of the Gospel. In his book, "Beyond Reasonable Doubt", on which I am basing this study, he states, "All of them pale when compared to the historical pinpoint-accuracy of Luke."(page 6) Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, a Scottish scholar, thought that Luke made lots of mistakes in the details of his writings, the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles. So he decided to go to Turkey and the Middle East to prove his thought to be correct. As he traveled where Luke had, he found out that Luke was "correct, even in minute details." Ramsay, himself was wrong! Ramsay wrote that "no period in ancient history is so assured and well attested..."as Luke's report. He wrote further that you could check out Luke's writings all you want, but his writings will be accurate to the tiny details; ie. dates, facts, etc., more than any other historian! He concluded that Luke "is not to be regarded as the author of historical romance, legend, or third or second-rate history. Rather he is the writer of an historical work of the highest order."(Quoted from "Beyond Reasonable Doubt)
   Remember that Luke wrote of the birth, life, death, AND the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead! In the book of Acts he repeatedly refers to the resurrected Christ as do the Apostles he writes about. Morgan quotes Wilber Smith as saying, "Of all the writers in the New Testament, Luke was the one who knew better than any of them, from his own medical experience, that it was utterly impossible for a dead body to come to life again by its own power. He was also a man who would have no faith in such a great doctrine as the resurrection of Christ, were it based upon a hallucination, a mental excitement, or the blowing of the wind or the rattling of a window. It was the conviction of this scientist and scholar, true Grecian and true Christian, that the Lord manifested (showed) Himself to His disciples in many (infallible) proofs." To reject the resurrection of Christ, you must reject the most accurate historian of the time; one who was accurate in the most minute details!

Sincerely,
Rick