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3. Newsweek reports that the Gospel accounts of Christ's nativity aren't "fully factual." Not to be outdone, Time assures us that "constantly evolving scholarship" casts doubt on the Gospel narratives.

4. …for some reason, Christ's first disciples, the ones on the scene at the time, got it all wrong. He didn't do all the things they thought they saw Him doing, or say all the things they thought they heard Him say.

5. They set off a huge chain reaction of martyrdom, converting even many of their torturers, who were immensely moved and impressed by this superhuman courage.

6. Long before the printing press, the radio, movies, and television, the martyrs spread the good news of the risen Christ. Some people still reject that news, and one strategy of rejection is to water it down, mixing it with enough skepticism to make the Gospels seem archaic and alien. Once we reject the miracles because belief in the miraculous now seems "outdated," it becomes easy to reject the message as outdated too.

7. One says modestly, "I don't know." The other says belligerently, "Nobody can know." One says modestly, "I don't know." The other says belligerently, "Nobody can know."

8. God is by definition the omnipotent creator of the universe, the source of our being. It's nonsense to say that this omnipotent being could exist without being able to communicate with His own creatures!—That "nobody can know" whether he's real or not. God is by definition the omnipotent creator of the universe, the source of our being. It's nonsense to say that this omnipotent being could exist without being able to communicate with His own creatures!—That "nobody can know" whether he's real or not.

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