Testimonies to the Truth: Why You Can Trust the Gospels

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Lydia McGrew

McGrew brings together new arguments and old ones in a form that is readily accessible to laymen while being careful and rigorous. With these arguments in hand, you will never be stumped when someone asks, “Why should I believe what the Bible says about the life and teachings of Jesus?”

Description

Christians should be prepared to defend and share their faith, even while wrestling with doubts and questions that arise from within and without. With thousands of books out there—not to mention content on social media—where do we start? Testimonies to the Truth, Lydia McGrew’s fourth book on New Testament reliability, provides a great starting point. With a heart for evangelism, equipping believers, and scholarship, McGrew brings together new arguments and old ones in a form that is readily accessible to laymen while being careful and rigorous. With these arguments in hand, you will never be stumped when someone asks, “Why should I believe what the Bible says about the life and teachings of Jesus?” Above all, McGrew points to Jesus himself, true God and true man, the One who teaches, loves, and suffers for us, described by the Gospels in vivid and credible detail. Including suggested study and discussion questions and references for further reading and research, Testimonies to the Truth provides an excellent resource for personal study, Sunday School, high school and college classes, and small groups.

Categories of evidence covered include:

  • Undesigned coincidences-puzzle-like connections between the details in different Gospel stories.
  • Little-known facts from outside the Bible that confirm details in the Gospels.
  • Unexplained allusions and unnecessary details-little things that the authors mention apparently just because they are true.
  • The personalities of Peter, Martha, and Mary in stories from different Gospels.
  • The unified personality of Jesus himself.

ENDORSEMENTS

This is McGrew’s best book to date! … McGrew dips back into nineteenth-century observations long forgotten, stirs in better-known recent ones and adds a few of her own discoveries for flavor.

– Craig L. Blomberg

Lydia McGrew offers a fresh and powerful case for the reliability of the Gospels. Resurrecting some classic arguments and yet offering some unique insights, Testimonies to the Truth deserves to be read by skeptics and believers alike. This is one of the top books I will now be recommending on why the Gospels can be trusted.

– Sean McDowell

Absolutely fascinating! … Discovering these insights will help you savor the Gospels in a whole new way.

– Natasha Crain

Lydia McGrew has again written a very helpful and insightful book … Both confirmed believers and those with questions will find this book of great benefit.

– Stanley Porter

About the Author

Dr. Lydia McGrew is a widely-published analytic philosopher, specializing in formal and classical theory of knowledge, testimony, and the philosophy of religion. She received her PhD in English from Vanderbilt University in 1995. She is the author of the widely acclaimed Hidden in Plain View: Undesigned Coincidences in the Gospels and Acts, which defends the reliability of the New Testament using a long-neglected argument from incidental details. She is also the author of The Mirror or the Mask: Liberating the Gospels From Literary Devices, which defends the reliability and historical genre of all four Gospels. She and her husband, philosopher and apologist Timothy McGrew, live in southwest Michigan.

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