One of the world’s most distinguished biblical scholars from Oxford University uncovers the realities of the four gospels. Most Christians have no inkling of these historical facts.
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This means that contrary to what Christians have traditionally maintained, there are NO EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS of the Gospel story. The Gospels were written by later unknown authors, who wrote their own Pseudepigraphal (Forgery) accounts and dishonestly attributed them back to well-known patriarchs (Mark, Matthew, Luke, John). This is only a sample of similar devastating findings that modern Biblical scholarship and textual Criticism has uncovered in regard to Christianity, Bible, and Church doctrines. There is now overwhelming scholarly consensus that the traditional devotional Christian understanding of Jesus and the scripture is distorted or false. If you don’t understand these facts, then you don’t understand the questionable foundational beginnings of Christianity and the early Church.
However, it is interesting to note that the Qur’an contains a more accurate depiction of what Biblical Scholars call the true historical Jesus divorced of Christian mythos.
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good points
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Those are his opinions, not facts, by any means. Unfortunately, textual critics, who happen to be all the rage these days, have many wonderful sounding theories which always lack proof. One could easily pull some cockamamie, sophisticated sounding, nonsense from thin air, couch it in the lingo of “the majority of modern scholars” and bam, have an equally impressive appearing theory.
The Muratorian Fragment, which some date to about 170, attributes the third Gospel to Luke and the fourth Gospel to John; the names of the authors of the first two Gospels are missing:
The third book of the Gospel is that according to Luke. Luke, the well-known physician, after the ascension of Christ, when Paul had taken with him as one zealous for the law, composed it in his own name, according to [the general] belief. Yet he himself had not seen the Lord in the flesh; and therefore, as he was able to ascertain events, (8) so indeed he begins to tell the story from the birth of John. The fourth of the Gospels is that of John, [one] of the disciples.
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