Posted: Apr 18, 2019 11:09 pm
Svartalf wrote:Thomas Eshuis wrote:I mean, the Gospels of Matthew and John were written by eyewitnesses. So There's that. Acts was written by a doctor, who would have been an eyewitness to some things and then would've done research on things he wasn't sure of. And then Paul, not a eyewitness to these accounts, would need to have one heck of an experience to go from murdering Christians, to writing letters establishing Doctrine for Churches around the Mediterranean in a hostile Roman-ruled area, and being willing to be scourged, imprisoned, brutalized, and killed for his belief.
First order shenanigans, Matthew the evangelist is generally agreed NOT to be the apostle of the same name,, and despite claims to that effect, there's no chance that John of Patmos ever to have been the Disciple whom Jeseus Loved. Plus, it's demonstrated that Matthew derived some of his stuff either from Mark, or from Mark's own source, which would not be the case if the author had been a first hand witness..
All the gospels are anonymous and written decades if not more than a century after the supposed death of Jesus.