History Quote by Kamal Salibi

“This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about Jesus's birth…

— Reza Aslan

“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…

— Eli Of Kittim

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to…

— Graham Stanton

“With regard to the gospels, biblical scholarship has mixed-up theology with history, thereby turning the eschatology of the epistles into memoirs.”

— Eli Of Kittim

“Unless men may come to a reasonable, solid persuasion and conviction of the truth of the gospel, by the internal evidences of it, .…

— Jonathan Edwards

“We use the gospels. We read them aloud in worship. We often preach from them. But have we even begun to hear what they…

— N.T. Wright

“we must proclaim the gospel because history has shown that where the gospel is merely assumed it will slowly be perverted and lost.”

— Bruce Ashford

“If there is a single fact which anyone who seriously studies the history of Christianity cannot help but be struck by, it is the…

— Savitri Devi

“biblical history did not take place in either the particular era or the manner described. Some of the most famous events in the Bible…

— Israel Finkelstein

If the evidence supports the historical accuracy of the gospels, where is the need for faith? And if the historical reliability of the gospels…

— Robert W. Funk

You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

— Rachel Held Evans

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and…

— G. M. Trevelyan