Great saints are never wimps.
All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.
We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.
God alone has the secret of eternal life and joy.
Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!
The scripture notion of truth is not an abstract, static, and timeless formula, but is something that comes true in time as the fulfillment of a divine promise. Truth happens in history.