Christianity didn't begin in a lie

“Christianity did not originate in a lie; and we can and ought to demonstrate this as well as believe it.”

Further study… showed that the book (Acts) could bear the most minute scrutiny as an authority for the facts of the Aegean world, and that it was written with such judgment, skill, art and perception of truth as to be a model of historical statement.”

—Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (d. 1939, Former atheist, Scottish archaeologist, New Testament scholar, a foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor)