Welcome to “A Trustworthy Gospel.” This site seeks to encourage Christians to embrace and hold fast to the belief that the first Gospel, Matthew, was published early, before the life story and teachings of Jesus were potentially corrupted over time, particularly due to the failure of eyewitness memories.
Yes, the Gospels are trustworthy, as they are the inspired words of God. However, the apostles also claimed that their writings were trustworthy because they were eyewitnesses of the events which they described. Accordingly, I contend that the apostles would have been motivated to safeguard the trustworthiness of their testimony concerning Jesus by promptly publishing a Gospel.
Please consult the archives and categories list for a variety of pertinent blog postings.
Following is a table of contents, by category:
Analysis & Research
- Biography Sizes: Gospels vs. Plutarch (Oct 2024)
- Publication Assumptions Impact Buswell’s Interpretation of the Olivet Discourse (Oct 2024)
- A Survey of Modern NT Introduction Books: What Dates Are Being Taught for the First Gospel? (May 2024)
- Does 2 Timothy 4:13 provide evidence of the preparation of a Gospel collection in the 60s? (May 2024)
- What kind of biographical work is Matthew’s Gospel? (Apr 2024)
- How late is too late? (Apr 2024)
- Paper to be presented at NW ETS meeting (Jan 2024)
Family Bibles and Bible Handbooks
- Bible Knowledge and Bible History Handbooks (Mar 2024)
- Sunday School Materials (May 2024)
- Catholic Family Bibles (Feb 2024)
- John Witherspoon and Your Family Bible (Jan 2024)
General
- A Christian remembrance of the birth of Jesus, circa AD 40 (& Merry Christmas!) (Dec 2024)
- Just back from ETS 2024 in San Diego (Nov 2024)
- Apologetics Forum of Snohomish County (May 2024)
- Apologetics Conferences (April 2024) (Apr 2024)
- Trustworthy (Dec 2023)
- Augustinian or Two-Gospel? (Dec 2023)
- Welcome! (Dec 2023)
Historical Champions
- Rev. Norman Walker of West Ewell untwists the Scriptures (Dec 2024)
- Henoch Clapham: A history of the Bible set to prose (Nov 2024)
- Warfield and the Early Recognition of the NT Writings as Scripture (Sep 2024)
- Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont (1694) claims that Matthew wrote in AD 36 (Jul 2024)
- Four More Historical Champions (May 2024)
- AD 32? James Knowles, thou dost go too far! (Mar 2024)
- Historical Champions of the 1700s (Mar 2024)
- Historical Champions of the 1600s (Feb 2024)
NT Use of Matthew
- New Insights into Acts 20: The Word of His Grace (Nov 2024)
- New Insights into Acts 18 and 19: Apollos, the Baptism of John, and the mighty Word of the Lord (Aug 2024)
- New Insights into Acts 16 and 17: Reasoning with God-fearers, Jews, and pagan philosophers (2024)
- New Insights into Acts 14 and 15: Encouragement (Aug 2024)
- New Insights into Acts 12 and 13: John Mark (Jun 2024)
Synoptic Sequences
- Must we accept that none of the Gospels are chronological? (Nov 2024)
- When was the hemorrhaging woman healed? (Oct 2024)
- The two-part story of the withered fig tree (Oct 2024)
- Recasting Mark’s kai euthys as “and then” (Oct 2024)
- A Synopsis Survey: Which Gospel Is Given Precedence? (Jun 2024)
The Book
- Just back from ETS 2024 in San Diego (Nov 2024)
- Church Association Regional Conference (Oct 2024)
- Interview with Midwest Christian Outreach: Tuesday, May 28, 12:00 pm Central Time (May 2024)
- “The Book” is now available! (Apr 2024)
The Early Need
- What kind of biographical work is Matthew’s Gospel? (Apr 2024)
- Paul’s Early Reference to a Gospel (Mar 2024)
Written in a Book
- The Law: “Write These Words” (Sep 2024)
