Are the Gospels Reliable?

Sure, but that fact is of no comfort to people who insist the Gospels are independent accounts. We don’t know that they’re independent, we don’t have the kind of evidence that would allow us to conclude with appreciable certainty that they’re independent.

That means arguments based on their purported mututal corroboration can be no stronger than the evidence for their independence is. So we have to establish the certainty with which we can conclude that first.

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