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Dr. Luke knew “what was real.” The good doctor gives the precision, the detail we come to expect from doctors. Luke 3:1-6 is a case in point. Luke chronicles the historic exactitude of John the Baptist’s mission and message to the world. The first two verses identify seven rulers, their times, names, titles, and events surrounding their regimes.
This type of listing shows the truth of a space-time history by linking people, places, and time. This is no sci-fi story. The kind of writing Luke does is in keeping with the Grecian-Roman histories. The people and events surrounding them can be researched and confirmed. As Paul says later in Acts 26:26, “these things have not been done in a corner.” This kind of historical writing is public and transparent.
Nothing is more real than the historic Truth of the Bible.
Thanks for spending this minute with me, Dr. Mark Eckel.
Mark Eckel (MA English, ThM Old Testament, PhD Social Science Research) is Executive Director of the Center for Biblical Integration, Liberty University.
“Give Me a Minute” is an ongoing effort to simply, clearly, and quickly explain aspects of true Truth.
Gratitude, as always, to my longtime friend, videographer, and tech guru Josh for his continued service.
[First published at MarkEckel.com]
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Archeologists use the Bible to help identify and locate historical places.
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The gospels are historical documents, testimony of the extraordinary events that happened long ago. Our collective accounts of long ago are preserved on stone tablets and triumphant monuments as well as oral traditions eventually written in books.
Denial of the preserved historical records to suit current fads is as wrong for the gospels as it was for the deniers of the Odyssey before Schliemann dug up troy.
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yes, yes. I meant to say the Iliad.