Fathers of Christianity - 9 of 9

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack

Recently we’ve been looking at just a few of the hundreds of Apostolic Fathers whose writings have been discovered. We’ve looked at Clement of Rome, Ignatiius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Marcus Felix and Irenaeus. Now, some critics of our times, professing to be Biblical scholars, have presented, as a result of their analyses, that Christ Himself, as well as the apostles and writers of the New Testament, are really the products of a “Christ myth��?, a fabrication, folk-lore that has developed over some period of time into what we call today New Testament Christianity.

 

But knowing what we now know, one will find it difficult to disagree with the conclusion by the eminent Rylands University scholar, F.F. Bruce, stating near the end of his book “Some writers may toy with the fancy of a Christ-myth, but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as that of Julius Caesar. It is not the historians who propagate the “Christ-myth theories.��?