The Red Beret Summary

The author of the article, Reasons to Question the Reliability of Scripture, wrote on the basis of trying to disprove or question the reliability of the New Testament by providing multiple arguments against the idea that the oral history of Luke and the other NT authors could be accurate. While I have an answer for all, I’m going to focus on a few that I believe are the most important to help clear up a basis for historical evidence before ever going into faith or Christianity as a theology. The two main arguments I’m going to respond to are the authors beliefs about the failings of human memory, capability and perception of oral tradition, as well as to try to help the author to distinguish between minor and major details relevance levels …show more content…
However, photographs of the event prove that the soldier was wearing a helmet, even though all the journalist could see, even with evidence to contradict it, twenty seven years later was still a soldier in a red beret. This example is used to try to discredit the memory of the human mind, but let me challenge the author to think about a different aspect of this; and that is, in short, does the soldier having a red beret or a helmet change the meaning or truth of what happened that day during the protest? In the sense that, when say compared to the Holocaust, take the eye witness account of two different Jews in the same room when being taken by German soldiers. The first Jew recounts that the soldiers grabbed their arm, and loaded them onto a blue truck that took them to the Gestapo and checked them in, which has German documental evidence to prove it. The second Jew recounts that the soldiers grabbed their arm, stumbled and was loaded onto a black truck that took them to the Gestapo and checked them in, which has German documental evidence to prove it. While the first Jew recalls a blue truck, and the second Jew recalls a black truck, those are minor detail divergencies that don’t change the over picture that they were taken to the Gestapo, and checked in. The biggest event of the example is not changed by one person remembering one small occurrence, and another remembering a different small occurrence, but is kept consistent because both Jews can recount and have evidence for the fact that the most important event, them