#12621 What Are the Top Reasons for Gospel Reliability? St. Luke, Eyewitnesses - Cy Kellett
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
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“What are the top reasons for Gospel reliability?” This question opens a discussion on the foundational aspects that affirm the Gospels’ trustworthiness, including the significance of eyewitness accounts. Other topics include the challenges posed by Bart Ehrman regarding Jesus’ words, the role of St. Luke among the apostles, and the criteria used to determine authentic Gospels versus apocryphal texts.
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Questions Covered:
- 02:10 – What are the top 3 reasons for the reliability of the gospels?
- 29:07 – Have you considered the work of Bart Ehrman and his problems with what Jesus really said?
- 35:56 – Is it safe to assume that St. Luke was one of the 72 that was originally sent out?
- 42:27 – How did they figure out which gospels were the actual eye witnesses and others weren’t like the gospel of Thomas?
- 46:49 – How would you go about balancing knowing the bible is the word of God and knowing humans had some influence on it?
- 50:44 – How would you compare the reliability of transmission of the NT compared to the Quran and the Hadiths?
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| 0:25.6 | Hey, how reliable is the New Testament? How reliable are the Gospels? Is this history? Is this kind of slapped together recollections or vague recollections that are tried, that the gospel writers try to |
| 0:41.8 | make sense of? |
| 0:42.5 | Or is this eyewitness stuff? |
| 0:44.4 | How reliable is the New Testament? |
| 0:46.9 | That's what we're going to talk about. |
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