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Today is Thursday, September 17th, 2020.

This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are playing detective.

We are looking at historical documents and the gospel themselves and wondering, can we trust these sources? Do we really have evidence that Jesus was a real person, that he lived at a specific time and a specific place?

We have seen from sources from people that weren't Christian, that indeed Jesus, without a doubt,

was a real person and was killed by Pontius Pilate.

We also have seen that the Gospels can be trusted. They have been tested by some very

stringent historical measures, and we know that what they write is true. And the words that they

record Jesus saying, he actually said. So now that we know this,

the next question that we need to answer is, who were these gospel writers? So we know their names.

We know that the gospels, the four gospels, were each written by a different person,

and those people were Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

And we could spend an entire season of this podcast talking about just one of those Gospels. But the question we are going to answer today is, how were these G gospels written? Perhaps you know that scripture is the

holy word of God and that we treat the Bible, the words of the Bible, much differently than we treat

the words in a newspaper. We know that these words are sacred, that in some mysterious way, God dwells in

these words. And maybe you've even experienced this. Sometimes when we read scripture,

if we welcome God in and we truly come into his presence, he will use these words written nearly 2,000 years ago to speak directly

to our hearts, to the problems that we are facing. I personally have experienced this many

times. I'm reading a passage of scripture, and it feels as if God himself is speaking directly to a situation

that I'm struggling with. This is the miracle of scripture, something that occurs to any

Christian that is willing to accept it. So how did these for rather ordinary men create scripture, words capable of doing that?

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