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Thomas accuses Blomberg, among others, of holding that the Sermon on the Mount was not delivered on one occasion. Yet Blomberg (Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels, 295) offers that as one option among several. Thomas accuses several scholars of "questioning the historical accuracy of the Gospels" (p. 258). A careful reading of Blomberg's Historical Reliability shows that he does not believe that the gospels are not accurate. He argues just the opposite, but assumes for the sake of argument that some people have difficulties with perceived inaccuracies or discrepancies among the three synoptics. Blomberg then answers these skeptics from within their own framework, showing that even using their own methods, the gospels are trustworthy.

There is a difference in the way historical criticism is used by these evangelical scholars compared with Bultmann, Wrede, and others. These latter are usually anti-supernatural, and attribute much of the actual material of the gospels to the creation of the early church. Evangelical scholars typically use historical critical methods to examine the way that the gospel writers used the material for their own purposes. They do not believe that the early church invented the material. The editors discount the possibility that the gospel writers used certain material rather than other material because it was suitable for the Sitz im Leben of the early church (pp. 212).