FORM CRITICISM
The method then proposes classifying traditions by specific story types. R. C. Foster has noted that form criticism is "fundamentally an attack upon the historical verity of the New Testament documents." He charged that the theory assumes the Gospel writers lacked sufficient "native intelligence" to observe and ascertain the events they wrote about with assurance, and then to record them in a clear, historically reliable form.
The leading proponents of form criticism are hopelessly at odds with one another. There is no reason not to accept the Gospel accounts as the inspired writings of men chosen by the Lord to record the essential details of his earthly sojourn. Whatever sources may have been employed (cf. Lk. 1:1-4), the writers' composition of the documents was most assuredly guided by the Spirit of God (2 Tim. 3:16-17).
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