Did any author in the New Testament actually know Jesus?

some scholars of today also claim that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a sexual relationship and evidence of this is seen in some of the paintings of Leonardo Da Vinchi LOLThe apostle Peter wrote 1st and 2nd Peter. 1Peter opens with a salutation 'Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the temporary residents scattered about...'so here is just one book that identifies an apostle of Christ as the writer. Can you somehow disprove this?

im sorry, i just saw in my quote i had his birth year as 110CE... its not, its 37C.E. I have this date in a previous post also, but not sure how i managed to type in 110CE here.So you obviously didnt look up the age of Josephus... you would have seen my error if you had.I refered to his birth year because this is only a few years after the death of Jesus. This meant that Josephus was a young man during the founding years of christianity. He did become a Pharisee at age 19, so his schooling started quite young...by age 26 he was being sent as a diplomat to Rome to seek the release of jewish prisoners.this makes Josephus a contemporary of the early church including the Apostles who were with Jesus.

its very relevantIf we are to scrutinize history by the word of scholars, then why must we only accept the word of scholars of our own day and age and not the word of scholars who were actually living during the times we are analyzing?

i agree, supporting evidence is a good thingdo you think that ancient historians had no supporting evidence?

what do you think the gospels accounts and the books of the christain scriptures are?

one problem with that is that myths go away after timeanother problem is that people dont lay their life down for something they know to be a mythnor do historians testify that a mythical person was a real personnor do we set our calanders by the supposed date of the birth of a myth

hi mod,yep i think you're right, too many different threads for me.
was this thread about justin martyre??,.. i'll have to go back and read it thru. the exact year is not known but in several manuscripts of the 10th century there is an inscription at the end of the gospel of stating 41CE as the year written. the Gospel of Thomas is not considered an authentic Christian writer. He likely did write it, but who he was is unknown...he certainly didn't stick to the christian teachings.

there are plenty of sites where you can view all of their writingshere's one
Justin Martyr

you realise you quote minded my post then.in reply to Modulous i stated that 41CE is the year attributed to the writing. i said Justin Martyr makes references to Mathews Gospel. His writings go back to 2nd Century so this means that mathews gospel must have been in circulation before the 2nd century.

for someone who cannot be authenticated, we surely have a lot of information about him and his works.Nightrain, we can say the same thing about every person in history, the scholars of today can put doubt on everyone...it doesnt mean they are rightit means they have doubts. but do those doubts change the historical records that we have? No, those records written by earlier scholars and historians are still there and still say that this person did this and this one did thatwe can take it with a grain of salt, but we cannot write it off completely

1stly, i dont think its called the Gospel of the Apostle Thomas or the Gospel of Saint Thomas
i believe its called, the 'Gospel of Thomas'
Im sure there could have been any number of people named thomas. it is highly unlikely that any christian wrote this book because it contains accounts of miracles supposedly performed by Jesus in his childhood.this is completely contradictory to the gospel accounts and no other bible writer mentions anything like this in their accounts about Jesus. There is very limited information about his childhood anywhere else in the christian scriptures.So it can be disproved quite easily..it is completely out of harmony with the rest of the christian teachings. Edited by Peg, : No reason given.