The Difference Between The Christian Religion and All Other Faiths is the Reliability of its History

The most important figure in all of human history is Jesus of Nazareth. In fact history is divided by the birth of Christ. All of time before His birth is labeled B.C. While all of time since His birth is labeled A.D. The influence of this Jesus changed the face of the world forever. Western civilization was built upon the teachings of Jesus and indeed was referred to as Christendom for many centuries. Yes, during this Christmas season someone in virtually every nation on earth will celebrate the birth of Jesus.

So who is this Jesus? Was He a great teacher with profound truth that became popular as his mystique rose? Some like to think so. Or, as Christians assert, is Jesus the second person of the trinity, the God man?

The great historian Dr. Luke, who wrote the gospel bearing his name as well as the book of Acts, relates the birth of Jesus as a miraculous event. He tells us the mother of Jesus questioned the angel who announced to her that she will bear a son, saying, “how shall this be, seeing I know not man?” Mary wasn't a biology major in the finer institutions of higher learning in the United States, but she understood that she could not be pregnant if she had not “known” a man.

This same historian, Luke, then goes on to relate the life of Jesus, recounting many miracles. Luke then tells how Jesus was crucified, died, and was buried. Then He rose from the dead. This resurrection story is most amazing, as it is widely accepted that all men are mortal. In the book of Acts, Luke relates many more miracles, which are attributed as signs that the Apostles are acting with authority from God. Luke relates stories of many changed lives including that of Saul of Tarsus. After an appearance of Jesus to Saul on the Damascus road, he converts from a chief persecutor of Christians to the chief Apostle to the Gentiles.

You may want to deny that there is a God, much less that Jesus is God. You may deny that Luke has written Christian history and insist that not only Luke's history, but the entire Bible is a book of legends, myths and exaggerations.

The only problem with that logic is that it is a logical argument. If the Christian God of scripture does not exist to order the universe then there is no such thing as logic. If there is no such thing as logic then you cannot argue, in fact you cannot talk, whats more you cannot even think. Because if the Christian God of scripture does not exist to maintain order, then you cannot know what your argument means. In fact you cannot know what your words mean. Therefore, by arguing against Luke's Christian history in the New Testament you are affirming the validity of Luke's history, which clearly gives account of the historical Jesus.