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Welcome to the resource side of our website. Here you will find more than 400 links to studies in a wide variety of doctrinal topic areas. These studies are intended to be comprehensive and to relate a step-by-step, reasonable analysis delving deeply into the scriptural texts. (We also offer video and audio presentations of some studies.)

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March 19, 2026

Is the New Testament a reliable historical account?

It is becoming more common today for people to dismiss the New Testament as a creative invention of later centuries rather than as the authentic documentation of real historical first-century events. Many Christians may simply adopt the reliability of the scripture as a matter of blind faith. But is there sound reason to accept the New Testament texts as real, historical accounts in the same way we accept the validity of other ancient figures and events?

For more information on
standards of historicity and the reliability of the New Testament, please see our articles entitled:


- Introduction to
   Why Christianity
- Jewish and Christian
   History (Part 1)
- Jewish and Christian
   History (Part 2)

Q:I'm new here. Where should I get started?
The arrangement of topics to the left provides a recommended reading order. It is designed to reflect a step-by-step progression from more basic topics to more complex ones. However, it is not necessary to follow this order. Those who are more familiar with certain topics may easily read whichever studies are of interest without first going through all of the earlier topics in the list.

systematic theology:
a reading guide

logical fallacies
a list of false
arguments