“Beyond the earliest days of the religion, early Christians were believers because they'd been converted, not because they were witnesses to supernatural events, just like today. The 9/11 hijackers believed in Paradise for martyrs, but that doesn't mean that that's true. We have no good reason to imagine that eyewitnesses wrote the gospels rather than someone simply documenting the Jesus story as it had developed within their church community.”
![“No nation, and few individuals, are really brought into [God's] camp by the historical study of the biography of Jesus, simply as biography. The earliest converts were converted by a single historical fact (the Resurrection) and a single theological doctrine (the Redemption) operating on a a sense…” quote by C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/85f/c-s-lewis-121_christianity_no-nation-and-few-individuals-are-really_1546284.jpg)
![“In 56 A.D. [the apostle] Paul wrote that over 500 people had seen the risen Jesus and that most of them were still alive (1 Corinthians 15:6ff.). It passes the bounds of credibility that the early Christians could have manufactured such a tale and then preached it among those who might easily have…” quote by John Warwick Montgomery](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1fc/john-warwick-montgomery-70630_alive_in-56-a-d-the-apostle-paul-wrote-that-ov_1972998.jpg)
