We also consider two other scholars’ book: D. The entire series is committed to bringing onto the web what scholars are saying in their books that support traditional conclusions about the Gospels and in this article it is Richard Bauckham’s Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Eerdmans 2006). But when we read it, we can also hear Peter’s preaching and eyewitness testimony in the background, in small hints.Īnswering that one-word question is the subject of this long article on the historical reliability of the Gospels, not their inerrancy and inspiration if we cannot establish the Gospels' historical reliability, then how can we move on to discuss their inspiration and inerrancy, as they have been traditionally understood? But nothing here contradicts those doctrines. The evidence suggests that Peter was indeed a portrait painter, but he used words alone.
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The course of wisdom, surely.īut I’m not giving in-not to the mals, not to fate, and especially not to the Scholomance. That would certainly let me sail straight out of here. Unless, of course, I finally accept my foretold destiny of dark sorcery and destruction. And even if I somehow make it through the endless waves of maleficaria that it keeps throwing at me in between grueling homework assignments, I haven’t any idea how my allies and I are going to make it through the graduation hall alive. Our beloved school does its best to devour all its students-but now that I’ve reached my senior year and have actually won myself a handful of allies, it’s suddenly developed a very particular craving for me. I suppose you could even argue that it’s true-only the wisdom is hard to come by, so the shelter’s rather scant. That’s the official motto of the Scholomance. 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