It is common today to speak of world faiths or to describe some people as having faith, as if others do not. Faith is seen as a nonrational belief—something not based on evidence. However, that is not what faith originally meant for Christians. Coming from the Latin word fides, the word faith used to mean something closer to our word trust. Trust, of course, can be based on evidence. This book’s title, Can We Trust the Gospels?, is therefore carefully chosen. It addresses the question