Consider

the following summary from Norman L. Geisler and Frank Tureks book. For more information, see
Credits at the end of this document.
Did New Covenant or Brit Chadashah writers make up, embellish, or exaggerate elements of the story? Did
they play fast and loose with the facts?
No. There are at least ten good reasons to believe they were honest men who meticulously and faithfully
recorded what they saw. New Covenant writers:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Include numerous embarrassing details about themselves.

Include numerous embarrassing details and difficult sayings of Jesus or Yeshua the Messiah.
Include demanding sayings of Jesus.
Carefully distinguish Jesus words from their own.
Include events about the Resurrection they would not have invented.
Include at least thirty historically confirmed public figures in their writings.
Include divergent details.
Challenge their readers to check out verifiable facts, even facts about miracles.
Describe miracles like other historical events: with simple, unembellished accounts.
Abandoned their long-held sacred beliefs and practices, adopted new ones, and did not deny their
testimony under persecution or threat of death.

So we have all these reasons to support the idea New Covenant writers relentlessly stuck to the truth. And
why would not they? What would motivate them to lie, embellish, or exaggerate anyway? What did they
possibly have to gain? They only gained persecution and death for testifying as they did. In other words,
New Covenant writers had every motive to deny New Covenant events, not to invent, embellish, or
exaggerate them. . When Jesus or Yeshua the Messiah arrived, most New Covenant writers were devout
Jews who thought that Judaism was the one true religion and they were the Creators chosen people.
Something dramatic must have happened to jolt them out their dogmatic slumbers and into a new belief
system that promised them nothing but earthly trouble.
Credits
The preceding presentation was influenced, copied, and paraphrased in large part from Norman L. Geisler
and Frank Tureks 2004 book titled I Dont Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist.1

1 Geisler, Norman L., and Turek, Frank, I Dont Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2004), pp.

296 and 297.