Was there any evidence of dishonesty that might taint their ability or willingness to transmit history accurately?
We simply do not have any reasonable evidence to suggest that they were dishonest. Their writings were not retracted in spite of the persecution of Christians present in their days. 7-4. The Consistency Test. Aren’t there irreconcilable discrepancies among the various gospel accounts? It’s true that if we rigidly examine and compare the gospels with each other, some accounts may appear to disagree. But we must consider that the gospels are extremely consistent with each other by ancient standards, which are the only standards by which it’s fair to judge them. Also, if the gospels appeared to be identical with each other, word for word, this would have raised charges that the authors conspired among themselves and invalidate that they were independent witnesses. *Dealing with the discrepancies: Simon Greenleaf of Harvard Law School There is enough of a discrepancy to show that there could have been no previous concert among them; and at the same time such substantial agreement as to sho
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