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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (26166)7/10/1999 4:35:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine  Read Replies (2) of 39621
 
Historical reliability of the Gospels-criterion #5.

5.) Is there evidence of the accumulation of legends in the document?

Fish stories tend to be exaggerated over time. The presence of "larger than life" features in a document suggest a later time of writing, and proportionally diminish the document's historical trustworthiness.
C.S. Lewis was a professor at Oxford and one of the world's greatest experts on ancient mythology. He once said, "as a literary historian, I am perfectly convinced that whatever else the Gospels are they are not legends. I have rad a great deal of legend, and I am quite clear that they are not the same sort of things."
The Gospels do include supernatural acts, but the accounts which we find in the Gospels don't have any of the features of ancient myhthology. The are very sober documents.
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