Why We Believe

Last fall author Joseph Atwill made a splash in London when he claimed the Gospels were faked by the Romans to quell a possible Jewish uprising. The theory, preposterous as it is, goes like this: Jesus preached that government should be obeyed (Mt. 22:21); so the Romans who occupied Judea and surrounding areas invented a religion with Christ (Messiah) at the head to rally the Jews together and ren