Why do Christians believe "the gospels" were written by Matthew,Mark,Luke and John? When now we know THE TRUTH

Question

It's obvious to all theolgian scholars that they were merely ATTRIBUTED to "the apostles" of Yeshuah bin Yosef al Nazareth..

Answer 1

That is simply not true. Many scholars hold to the traditional authorship. Also it is an ASSUMPTION that the books were not written by who they were said to be written by. There is no proof at all. In all of the writings of the early Christians there is not one person who says such and such book was written by a different author.

In fact, there is a very clear testimony from the disciples of John that the "Gospel of John" was written by John.

If we really study history we easily can see that the testimony of the authorship of the Gospels is far greater than the testimony of the exploits of Caesars, yet that is never doubted. Do we ever suggest that Suetonius didn't write the Lives of the Twelve Caesars or that Plato didn't write the Symposium? No we do not, yet there is much less evidence for that.

Answer 2

Wait a minute. You're making an assertion without any evidence to back it up.
You saying 'It's obvious" doesn't make it a fact. Back that up with some data as to why it's supposed to be obvious. And you say "It's obvious to ALL theologians"? Come on already! That's like saying ALL white Christians are republicans! It's just not true.
I'm educated enough to know that not all theologians agree on this point. In fact, it's not a commonly held belief. What many theologians DO believe about the gospels is that some of their material came from a mysterious 'Q' document. In other words, the gospel writers had some earlier work from which to compare their notes to ensure accuracy. However, most theologians do not really have an issue with the human authors of the gospels.

Answer 3

I've heard that theory that the books weren't actually written by those particular people but, I haven't really looked into it, I did however find information that they don't always agree, 'Matthew' lists several events during the crucification that the other gospel writer's don't (i.e. the dead walking from their graves into the nearest holy city, the cloth being torn in two,, etc.) also two of the books speak of the 'virgin' birth-the other two don't mention it, only two of the four discuss the resurrection...and they have differing versions. In one, M.M. goes alone to the tomb and on the way, meets Jesus' 'spirit'; in the other version, she's joined by the mother Mary and some other female relative (I think John the Baptists mom) and the three of them go in the tomb and are told by two angels that 'He is risen'
There's more but those are details mostly about mis-translation (which is important but those scholars found a lot to go over)
it's a start anyway :-)

OK, I wandered & forgot my point...
No matter who wrote those books, they're supposed to be inspired by God, I guess it's important to those individuals b/c research shows inaccuracies (there's one part in Matthew during the crucification (of course) that says the sun stood still for three hours but amazingly, no one else says anything...) so, I would think if someone believed a judgemental deity was credited for your work & you did poorly, well...

Answer 4

You Keep Believing The Theolgians And I'll Keep Believing What The Bible Says!......Do You Also Pray To Theolgians!....I Know The Truth And The Truth Is In The Bible!

Answer 5

I don't believe they were written by those men and I'm a Christian. I believe what the Bible says...

"All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Answer 6

"Christians": Is the bible the printed truth from God or a decision of eye witness money owed written by ability of adult men? " both. The money owed of what got here about in accordance to some adult men who wrote about who even were inspired. "printed truth from God? Why then do the descriptions of the discovery of Jesus' empty tomb, as provided in the 4 gospels, disagree? all the 4 gospels describes the shape in a unique way, with a diverse solid of characters in each and each. If God is making effective the writers get it proper, why then do they disagree?" i do not see that they disagree. I see that they contain area of a similar tale that the different skipped over. With an adventure so complicated, like who went to Jesus tomb, i imagine that it replaced into distinctive females going first, certain authors did not communicate about the different females. when I study the tale after the Resurrection, and evaluate them, what i'm getting is honest reporting by ability of diverse eyewitnesses. What the girls talked about on the tomb replaced right into a rfile heard by ability of the adult men and then written down after. And be conscious that the adult men went to ascertain because they did not believe the girls. They went after. "Eye witness money owed? Who witnessed the temptation of Jesus in the barren region, at the same time as devil provided him the international? Are we to believe Jesus later re-instructed the tale, bragging about how he resisted devil? " we are able to say that no longer less than, Jesus talked in between verses in the Bible. you spot, a lot of human beings act like Jesus did no longer have some thing to say that wasn't in the Bible. I ascertain that Jesus instructed them what got here about. they did no longer have television you understand. The nights were lengthy at cases, they probaby talked ". Who witnessed the prayers in Gethsemane? in accordance to the account, the disciples were snoozing at the same time as Jesus prayed to God. Are we to believe Jesus whined to the disciples about how he prayed to God to be further and replaced into refused?" If i replaced into there as a disciple, i'd write that the disciples slept at the same time as he prayed. yet on condition that they slept. What i'd write is that the disciples slept. i'd no longer contain that i did not sleep. it really is confusing to sleep and listen at the same time, you understand. "So it really is it: God-inspired truth (in which case God couldn't tell the tale of the empty tomb a similar way two times) or eye-witness (in which case whomever wrote the memories of the Temptation and Gethsemane invented those memories)?" both.

Answer 7

what a stupid remark sir, you need to study up on history of the bible. i have repeated this like 20 times in here. the NT is a written Autograph, which means the author was who it was supposed to be. look up autograph, look up the dates when it was written, between 45 and 95 a.d. then come back when you have a little more knowledge

Answer 8

I thought they wrote it, then it was re wrote by 300 scholars, one paragraph at a time to compare notes and see if they all got the same message?

Answer 9

How do you know any author wrote any literature of the past? You have to follow the rules of evidence. When you compare the same rules of evidence for non-biblical literature and use it to determine the authors of the bible, the evidence for the biblical authors is overwhelming!

Answer 10

These traditions never hurt anyone.
You may or may not have noticed that the religious scholars who found out this stuff aren't pushing the same media you are.
They respect others beliefs, and I respect yours.