Tom Skinner > Quotes

“I spent a long time trying to come to grips with my doubts, when suddenly I realized I had better come to grips with what I believe. I have since moved from the agony of questions that I cannot answer to the reality of answers that I cannot escape, and it's a wonderful relief.”
― Tom Skinner

“One of my favorite arguments against Jesus was how do we know He really existed? How do we know that accounts of Jesus aren’t some carefully preserved legend? Then I recalled one of my favorite characters of history. Socrates was a Greek philosopher, but he left no writings behind when he died. In fact, the only proof we have that he ever lived at all is what others have told us about him! Even then, only Plato and one or two others, such as Aristophanes, the dramatist, and Xenophon, his great friend and admirer, tell us anything about him at all. Yet, we accept their story. But more than forty different men sat down and wrote about the greatness, the sovereignty and the power of God. And many men, writing separately, gave similar and non-contradictory accounts of Jesus Christ. Yet, I didn’t believe it.”
― Tom Skinner, Black and Free