Acts 19:18 (KJV)
And many that believed came, and confessed, and shewed their deeds.
There is, in this passage,
- some doctrinal contention,
- some of the miraculous,
- some of the devilish,
and finally, a result of God doing
- some mighty work among them.
One of the things not often considered is that the people who believed—or even disbelieved—would have had opportunity to read about all of this in their own lifetime.
They could have corrected or refuted these events.
They could have, for instance, objected—written rebuttals about the book burnings.
The town clerk, or those who worked with him and around him, could have denied that this uproar ever took place.
Most, if not all, of the people mentioned—
- The seven sons of Sceva,
- Demetrius,
- Alexander
would surely still have been alive in the 10–20 years between when these events happened in Ephesus and when the Book of Acts was written and began to be published abroad.
Christianity grew so rapidly that we must realize it did not happen in a vacuum. These books of the Bible were dispersed quickly and widely. Surely, if the events had not been true, the very people named in them would have denied it.
But there are no such records.
Instead, there are many—hundreds, even thousands—who wrote about these things and repeated the accounts. There are even a few records of non-believers mentioning what the Christians were talking and writing about. But there are no real-time records of anyone who claimed to be a witness of these events and denied that they happened exactly as the Bible says they did.
You’d think, if these were myths and fairy tales, someone from that period would have said so.
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