Re: Luke no eye witness


Iasion wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Apologists have claimed Luke was an eye-witness to the Gospel events,
> or perhaps spoke to eye witnesses.
>
>
> The actual passage reads :
>
> "Since many have undertaken
> to compile a narrative
> of the events that have been fulfilled among us,
> just as those who
> were EYEWITNESSES from the beginning and ministers of the word
> have handed them down to us,"
>
> I too have decided,
> after investigating everything accurately anew,
> to write it down in an orderly sequence for you,
> most excellent Theophilus,
> so that you may realize the certainty
> of the teachings you have received."
>
>
(cut) He was not an eyewitness to the events in the gospels, but he
may have been an eyewitness to Paul's evangelizing efforts- A. McIntire

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