How Do Historians Determine Truth

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How do Historians Determine Truth?

In a previous lesson, we talked about the importance of truth and how truth is that which corresponds to reality.

We then talked about how history is a useful way to determine what corresponds to reality and how this is foundational to determining if a religion is true.

But how do historians go about figuring out what corresponds to reality? Obviously, we don’t have time machines. We can’t go back to the events themselves.

What historians do have as they evaluate the truth of scripture is that historians have tangible evidence in these areas: Geography, archeology, artifacts, and documents.

In this lesson, we’ll look briefly at each one for how they help us determine the truth of the Biblical documents—if they respond to reality or not.

This lesson is part of a 4‐part  foundational series:

How Truth & History confirm that we can trust the Christian Bible

#1 What is Truth?

#2 How do historians determine Truth?

#3 How is the historical truth of the Christian Bible unique? part one. . . a comparison with the Hindu and Buddhist scriptures

#4 How is the historical truth of the Christian Bible unique? part two. . . a comparison with Muslim and Mormon scriptures

Please plan to listen to or watch all four lessons for a full understanding of the topic of why we can trust the Christian Bible.

This is an extremely important foundational series of lessons. Though it takes more than intellectual assent to the truths of the Christian faith to become a believer in Jesus (the demons know the truth of it as the book of James tells us), it is important to trust our eternal destiny to a faith that is based on historical, verifiable evidence and not merely fables and myth.

This series of videos will give you confidence that your faith has a verifiable, historical, trustworthy foundation.

Included in this Lesson

• An 1080p video
• A PDF of Notes/Transcript of the lesson
• A PDF of Questions on the lesson for individual study or group discussion
• Two digital files of images you can use to promote the topic
• Unlimited reproduction rights of the video and handouts within your church, group, ministry, or business.

In the files below:

• The MP4 file has the video—the name may be a bit odd as the program I’m using automatically sometimes gives it a new name when I save it.
• The ZIP file has the PDFs of notes and question pages, plus the image files.