Brian LePort asks (and Tom Verenna responds):
What events recorded in Scripture must be historical for you to affirm the truthfulness of Christianity?
For myself the answer is short and simple: the resurrection of Christ. I think all of Christianity stands or falls on whether God really raised Jesus from the dead.
To further the conversation, here are a few events of the Bible that I don’t think are historical: Genesis, Exodus, etc. A more important event that I think is probably not historical is the virginal conception of Jesus.
Agree with the ressurection as a necessary historical event. I would like to hear your opinion about the historical reliability of the gospels.
Non-historical: Genesis 1-11. I’ve Never considered taking Exodus to be ahistorical. But I hope Joshua is historically inaccurate-racial genocide is bad no matter the context.
Job, Jonah-obvious canidates.
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