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[Walter]

"The New Testament scriptures constitute profound evidence-- first person witness testimony about the life, doctrines, and resurrection of Christ."

Not a single word of the NT was written by anyone who saw Jesus alive.
First person? Nonsense...

[DrSchadenfreude]

Jan 2, 2023 19:15:52 GMT -5 Walter said:

"The New Testament scriptures constitute profound evidence-- first person witness testimony about the life, doctrines, and resurrection of Christ."

Not a single word of the NT was written by anyone who saw Jesus alive.
First person? Nonsense...

Dead wrong, Walter.  Where did you read such nonsense?  Post your erroneous source.

St. Luke of Antioch, famously, encountered Christ on the road to Emmaus.

St. John was "the disciple whom Jesus loved."

St. Mathew was one of Christ's 12 main Apostles.

St. Mark was a young associate of the Apostle Peter.

Study the top scholars of the New Testament-- e.g. Helmut Koester from Harvard.

Even anti-Christian Bible scholars like Bart Ehrman have conceded that all four canonical Gospels were written in the first century A.D.

The Pauline epistles were written from 46 A.D. to 64 A.D., (when Paul and Peter were executed in Rome.)

Koester and other scholars date the Gospel of Luke to about 70 A.D., with Mark in the 60s-- derived partly from the Q Source.

(The Q Source preceded Mark and Mathew.)

The fourth Gospel, of St. John, was written last, toward the end of the first century.

[Walter]

Did any Apostle actually write their book?
Here is a Q I never thought of before:
Were any Apostles even literate?

[DrSchadenfreude]

Jan 2, 2023 23:20:10 GMT -5 Walter said:

Did any Apostle actually write their book?
Here is a Q I never thought of before:
Were any Apostles even literate?

Luke wrote his Gospel, and his Acts of the Apostles, in literate Greek.

He was a physician from Antioch.

Paul was a highly educated Hebrew and Greek-speaking Pharisee/scholar who studied with the Jewish sage Gamaliel in Jerusalem.

His Epistles were written in Greek.

Mathew was a publican/tax collector.

I'd have to go back and research the subject, but I think the Mathew, Mark, and Q Source Gospels were translated to Greek from Aramaic/Hebrew.

[DrSchadenfreude]

IMO, Zondervan is a good source for "higher criticism" research into Biblical texts.


What Are the Synoptic Gospels, and Where Do They Come From?

zondervanacademic.com/blog/synoptic-gospels