You can’t poke holes in my Bible

Regarding Bob Lambert’s assertion that the Biblical Gospels are unprovable because the writers never saw Jesus in the flesh ... what Bible is he reading?

To set the record straight, using the commentary from my English Standard Version Study Bible published by Crossway; more than 95 Evangelical Christian scholars made up the team who undertook this project. According to these scholars; The Gospel of Matthew is attributed to Matthew the Tax Collector who left his business to follow Jesus as one of the Twelve Apostles.

Mark’s Gospel was most likely written by the Apostle Peter’s attendant John Mark, and many scholars believe that he refers to himself as the “young man who flees” in Mark 14:52.

Luke was not an eyewitness to Jesus’ life, however he was a companion of the Apostle Paul, also not an eyewitness to Jesus’s life as Paul met Jesus on the road to Damascus after Jesus was raised from the dead.

Finally, John was almost certainly John the son of Zebedee, “the disciple whom Jesus loved.”

Detractors have been unsuccessfully trying to disprove the Bible for more than 2,000 years, and I would think that their best arguments rise far above that of Mr. Lambert.

Larry A. Franco

Campton Hills