Sentences with phrase «hand eyewitness testimony»

Not exact matches

If one compares the supernatural claims of the gospels to those of Joseph Smith, the 11 witnesses claimed to be direct eyewitnesses, their testimonies were contemporaneously recorded, and there is an external record corroborating they were in the right place at the right time; the gospels were recorded second hand, well after the alleged events, and there is no extrinsic record corroborating their presence at the right place at the right time.

So on one hand we have Jesus... in which we have eyewitness testimony, who even secular historians acknowledge lived, and KNOW that humans exist.

Were his sources eyewitnesses themselves or were his sources associates of eyewitnesses giving him «eyewitness» testimony from their source or sources, which would make Luke's information, at best, second hand information.