Are the Four Gospels Historically Accurate?
The four gospels have many references to people, places, customs, and events. While it is not possible to independently verify everything that it records, it is possible to see if what it records matches up with what we know about first-century life in that part of the world. They Should Be Investigated The Same Way As Other Documents The gospels were written in the same way as other documents in the ancient world. Consequently, it should be examined the same way as these other documents. They are the straightforward accounts of the people who walked and talked with Jesus and were observers of the things that He both said and did. The men who wrote these books made them public at the time they were written. There is no idea of hiding them so as to be discovered by some later generation. Every aspect of the composition of the New Testament is the same as other historical writings of that period. Therefore we need to investigate their claims as we would any other historical record. When
