with respect to the claim of apostolic authorship of Matthew and John and the tie with apostles in Mark and Luke. If one denies the supernatural and the possibility of miracles and if the Gospels report numerous such miracles, how could the Gospels have been written by eyewitnesses? (The same holds true for Acts, whose author claims to be an eyewitness in the “we sections.”) How could eyewitnesses, whose intelligence and historical competency have been questioned but not their integrity, because
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