Sermons & Devotionals by F.F Bruce
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F.F Bruce
DOES IT MATTER?
Does it matter whether the New Testament documents are reliable or not? Is it so very important that we should be able to accept them as truly historical records ? Some people will very confidently return a negative answer to both these questions. The fundamental principles of Christianity, they say... Read More
F.F Bruce
MORE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
The archeological evidence bearing on the New Testament is not so imposing as that bearing on the Old Testament; but, though less spectacular, it is not less important. We have already considered some of the evidence from inscriptions and papyri; we may look at one or two more examples before passin... Read More
F.F Bruce
THE CANON OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
Even when we have come to a conclusion about the date and origin of the individual books of the New Testament, another question remains to be answered. How did the New Testament itself as a collection of writings come into being? Who collected the writings, and on what principles? What circumstances... Read More
F.F Bruce
THE EVIDENCE OF EARLY GENTILE WRITERS
So much, then, for the information we can gather from early Jewish writings; we turn now to the Gentiles. The first Gentile writer who concerns us seems to be one called Thallus, who about AD 52 wrote a work tracing the history of Greece and its relations with Asia from the Trojan War to his own day... Read More
F.F Bruce
THE EVIDENCE OF EARLY JEWISH WRITINGS
I. The Rabbinical Writings When the city of Jerusalem fell in AD 70, together with the temple, the dominion of the priestly families and the supreme court of the Sanhedrin fell with them. The only party in Judaism which was capable of undertaking the necessary work of reconstruction was that of the ... Read More
F.F Bruce
THE GOSPEL MIRACLES
Before we leave the Gospels, something ought to be said about the miracle stories which are found in them. Anyone who attempts to answer the question which forms the title of this book must recognize that for many readers it is precisely these miracle-stories which are the chief difficulty in the wa... Read More
F.F Bruce
THE GOSPELS
I. The Synoptic Gospels We now come to a more detailed examination of the Gospels. We have already indicated some of the evidence for their date and early attestation; we must now see what can be said about their origin and trustworthiness. The study of Gospel origins has been pursued with unflaggin... Read More
F.F Bruce
THE IMPORTANCE OF PAUL'S EVIDENCE
The earliest of the New Testament writings, as they have come down to us, are the letters written by the apostle Paul up to the time of his detention in Rome (c. AD 60-62). The earliest of our Gospels in its present form can probably not be dated earlier than AD 60, but from the hand of Paul we have... Read More
F.F Bruce
THE NEW TESTAMENT DOCUMENTS:THEIR DATE AND ATTESTATION
1. What are the New Testament documents? THE New Testament as we know it consists of twentyn seven short Greek writings, commonly called 'books', the first five of which are historical in character, and are thus of more immediate concern for our present study. Four of these we call the Gospels, beca... Read More
F.F Bruce
THE WRITINGS OF LUKE
Outside Paul's own letters, we have most of our information about him from the writings of his friend and companion Luke, the author of the third Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. Luke was a physician by profession, and according to a tradition which can be traced back to the second century was a... Read More
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