Editor:
Regarding the recent Virginia Walmart tragedy, some people interpret differing eyewitness reports as conflicting testimonies.
One witness says the shooter targeted individuals, while another says he fired at random.
An actual contradiction requires more than just a difference. Two witnesses can interpret events differently, or one could have seen random behavior at one time while another saw focused behavior at a different time.
Islam teaches that the Injil (Gospel of Jesus) was revealed by God as one set of words. The existence of four Christian Gospels is viewed as evidence that Christians no longer have God’s revealed Injil, but only four corruptions of it.
But most Christians don’t believe the Gospels to be divinely dictated. Instead, Christians view the Gospels as divinely inspired writings drawn from the eyewitness accounts of actual occurrences.
Since we read differing accounts in 2022 news reports, we should likewise expect past events to include differing accounts. They are real events witnessed by real people who differ in the telling, as opposed to a body of religious authors getting together and inventing a uniform story meant to gain adherents.
This answers many but not all accusations that the Gospels contradict one another.
Glenn Shrom
Upper Bern Township
Source: Berkshire mont
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