Harvard University, Royal Law Professor,
and world renowned courtroom evidence expert:
Simon Greenleaf
This is an interesting 2 part video series that I wanted to introduce into our series on "Ancient Non-christian Historical Evidence for Jesus of Nazareth". In this first video, you will be introduced to an interesting scholar of law and the courtroom standards for evidence, Simon Greenleaf.
As you will learn, Greenleaf is was the Royal Professor of Law at Harvard in his day and literally wrote the book that determines the rules and standards for good/acceptable courtroom evidence. Greenleaf was a legal scholar and firm believer in Jesus Christ historically. He also went on to write a book entitled "The Testimony Of The Evangelists" which examines the historical and textual evidence of the 4 Gospels in the New Testament. How would these 4 documents fare, if submitted to an examination of them in light of the Harvard and legal standards for courtroom evidence? Watch and find out.....
Remember.... have an Intelligent Faith!!
- Pastor J.
Very enlightening, to say the least. I'm just finishing my second full month of studying Christian apologetics, reviewing this site, Dr. Craig's site, and reading works by Paul Copan and N.T. Wright. However, I must add that I'm very discouraged to see the lack of engagement by members on this site, and by posts I've made to my Facebook page, pointing to tons of great information here and elsewhere. Many of my friends are so-called Christians but are more interested in TV and sports, from what I see them post. The seemingly (perhaps I'm wrong) overall lack of interest is profoundly astonishing. I'm also having a bit of a problem with posting on your site. One time an unedited post appeared, after I had corrected it, and another time a post disappeared entirely. It could be my problem - I could be doing something wrong - so take this message with a grain of salt. Pastor Dennett, I received a reply (I think) from your site administrator a few days ago, but did not realize who it was from, and deleted it before reading it - a whoops moment. Anyway, the most important point has been made: The lack of engagement I see. I'm not sure what can be done about this, but it is disheartening to detect. Thanks for all your efforts.
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