Reflect on the following statement by Voddie Baucham:
The Bible is a life-changing collection of historical documents, written by eyewitnesses who reported the occurrence of supernatural events; these events took place as fulfillment of specific prophecy, and point to the Bible’s divine origins.
There is much to unpack in Voddie's statement, but I want to just highlight one thing. What are we to make of the fact that the Bible is a life-changing document? What of the life change of those who not only wrote the Bible, but also those of the first generation of Christ's followers? In Cynics and Christian Origins, Francis Downing writes that it's only what happens next that you can make sense of Christian origins. What he means by "what happens next" is the explosion of the church despite opposition. If what was recorded in the Bible was false, why did it affect so many?
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