Truth That Sets Us Free ...
in The Verdict of History, Gary Habermas details a total of 39 ancient sources documenting the life of Jesus, from which he enumerates more than one hundred reported facts concerning Jesus' life, teachings, crucifixion and resurrection, what's more 24 of the sources cited by Habermas, including 7 secular sources and several of the earliest creeds of the church, specifically concern the divine nature of Jesus, these creeds reveal that the church did not simply teach Jesus' deity a generation later, as is so often repeated in contemporary theology, because this doctrine is definitely present in the earliest church, the best explanation for these creeds is that they properly represent Jesus' own teachings, that is stunning corroboration for the most important assertion by the most influential individual who has ever lived
"Ye shall know the truth and the truth will make you free"
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