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No, I don't believe that at all, and while I'm no expert on that issue, I seriously doubt anyone could know that.
You'll be hard pressed to find a scholar who claims differently.
Take for instance, the Gospel of Mark.
The idea that Mark wrote a gospel is attested by Papias, early in the second century; he says that Mark never encountered Jesus but later became the disciple and ‘interpreter’ of Peter. On the basis of Peter’s teaching about the words and deeds of Jesus, he drew up an account which was accurate but not ‘in order’ (Eusebius, H.E. 3, 39, 15).
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Mark is the earliest Gospel and was written sometime around 70 AD, though the above gives an earlier date.
This is 40 years after the death of Christ, give or take. Thirty-five or forty-five years was a decently long lifespan at the time, so you have a full generation passing between the death on the cross and the writing of Mark. Where is the fantasy in this? The other Gospels were composed even later, Matthew and Luke both drawing from Mark.
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I've read lots of suggestions that maybe the Gospels are late enough that none of their writers met Christ, but I've never seen anyone say they knew.
Many biblical authors are unknown. Where an author has been named, that name has sometimes been selected by pious believers rather than given by the author himself. The four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, are examples of books which did not carry the names of their actual authors. The present names were assigned long after these four books were written. In spite of what the Gospel authors say, biblical scholars are now almost unanimously agreed that none of the Gospel authors was either a disciple of Jesus or an eyewitness to his ministry.
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This information is not hard to come by and there is no real contraversy among biblical scholars.
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I think it's a great habit. Gets to the point, which you do not.
No, it doesn't. It just makes you look like you have an itchy trigger finger.
What is the point you think I have not made? There you go again, seeing agenda around every corner. Sad...
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You just make a bunch of unfounded statements, defend none of them, make no points, get off the subject of the thread, so, yeah, I'm trying to waste a little less of my time with you.
Why is it that a few simple questions triggers such hostility? Where does it come from?
Unfounded statements? Nope, quite well founded, maybe that is what lit the fuse.
Defend none of them? Well, one has to start somewhere. I don't know what you will dispute and what you won't. Guess I could just jump the gun, guess your agenda and start swinging, but why?
Make no points? Funny, you responded to some points I didn't make.
Get off the subject? Even more funny. Seems we've been discussing biblical accuracy and it is a concern.
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By the way, I can't imagine there's too many people who care whether you see a reference to the crucifixion in Psalm 22. I'm certainly not one of them. Thanks for bringing it up, though.
Ah... more hostility-- the sweet sweet smell of christianity.
You seem to feel it was important enough to bring up Psalm 22. I read it and I commented. Is that not how a discussion works?
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