Can we believe the Gospels?

It is a common thing for me to question the reliability of the Bible. Doubt is always creeping into my mind when I hear other men coming up with reasons NOT to believe the Bible's truth.

1. It's full of contradiction
2. The gospel writers had their own agenda

There is something deeper than my rational mind that knows the Bible is true, but the mind itself is the place of debate and arguement. I find myself there sometimes and I'll bet most Christians are in a similar place from time to time.

As friends have said "ITS BLIND FAITH!" In other words, there's no logic to believing God's word, it's like believing in fairies or leprechans. You don't think too hard about it, otherwise you may find that you really don't believe in the little people.

Recently, I found an article that helps my thinking mind to digest the revelation of the Gospels in a more logical way. A former Australian magistrate (Judge) breaks down the reliability of the gospel witnesses from a legal standpoint. Would Matthew, Mark, Luke and John's testimony be accepted in a court of law?

Read for yourself....

A former chief magistrate examines the witnesses to the resurrection

This quote from the article really sticks in my mind....

"They portray Jesus as one who taught with great authority and conviction, as one who had a passion for truth, who abominated hypocrisy and abhorred lying and deception. They themselves were committed disciples of the man they were writing about. As men of Jewish stock, steeped in the Old Testament, they knew the requirements of their law that witnesses be true. The only logical and sensible inference from all this is that they themselves were honest men who were concerned for the truth. They were not deceitful.
Put in another way, the writings of these five men contain some of the highest moral and ethical teaching the world has known. If these men were not honest, then they represent a baffling contradiction of what they themselves were proclaiming."

BTJ