A Study Companion on the Gospel of Luke: Exposition, Interpretation, and Commentary

We need to remember that the documents found in the Bible were "people stories" for a long time before churches generations later elevated them to the status of "sacred writings." They were the writers' convictions about God's nature and character, God's requirements of people, the meaning of natural events, the outcome of national and cultural events, and current affairs. As such, the writers' works were colored by their own non-scientific status, the superstitions and folk tales of their ...