But the Christian writer seems, by the usual course of the argument, to have been deprived of the common presumption of charity in his favor; and reversing the ordinary rule of administering justice in human tribunals, his testimony is unjustly presumed to be false, until it is proved to be true..{independent historians} have been treated, in the argument, almost as if the New Testament were the entire production, at once, of a body of men, conspiring by a joint fabrication, to impose a false religion upon the world. Simon Greenleaf
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There is a tendency among some Christians to view critical historians as a group of people who have conspired together to present a biased and false picture of the world. They see that this bias and false presentation is the reason why many believe the Christian accounts of history. However, this is not what the Christian writer was referring to. Instead, he meant that historians are all too ready to see things through their religious lens. Once they do this, they fail to look at any evidence that might prove something different than their religious beliefs.

Source: An Examination Of The Testimony Of The Four Evangelists, By The Rules Of Evidence Administered In Courts Of Justice

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