How could NT be the true scriptures of Jesus while it was written years after he was raised to heaven?

Question

It's the same old question that has not been answered yet!

As you can see, I'm questioning the credibility of the bible. So, the bible is not a valid source for me. Would you use some other valid arguments?

I'm sorry, no answer was convincing enough. I’ll just leave the voting for you guys.

Answer 1

You cannot convince anyone about matters of faith with logic, no matter how many times the question is asked. The oral tradition was not so far removed from the time period in question that it falls into the realm of mythology or legend. Either you have faith or you don't, its that simple.

Answer 2

Ms Pretty, I think people are having a hard time answering your question because it isn't a very valid question. It's kind of like you asking, how could a book written today about the civil war be true? Do events become less true as time goes by? No. What's true is true today, tomorrow, next week, etc. With history, we can begin to doubt old texts, like the Bible, if later some older text comes along refuting it or if some archeological evidence comes along refuting some of the stories in the text.

The Bible was written by eye witnesses of the events of Jesus' life. Some of the reasons while Matthew, Mark, Luke and John waited to write their accounts include;
1. At first, there were so many people living who already knew the details that they didn't need to be recorded. As my parents get older, I want them to tell me more about my grandparents who I didn't know very well, otherwise that knowlege will die with my folks. The gospel writers didn't want their knowlege of Jesus to die with them.
2. All of the gospel writers had jobs. They probably waited till they were older to write because they had more time then.
3. Some people began spreading false stories about Jesus and they wanted to be sure there was a record of the truth.

By the way, archeology has repeatedly confirmed detail after detail of the Bible. Google "archeological proof for the Bible" to learn more. But be serious. If you seek for the truth you will find it. The Bible demands a response. If you find out Jesus really did live, really does love you, really did die for your sins, really rose again to go and prepare a place for His followers, you are forced to accept or reject His love.

Answer 3

The New Testament was written by the Apostles and people who knew Jesus. The reason they did not write at first, was they believed He was coming back soon. Then Paul addressed this in one of his letters that they were not sure when Jesus would return. So, I assume they decided they better get this stuff down on paper (Parchment at the time). The Apostle John was very old when he seen and wrote Revelation and Jesus had been gone for a long time.

Answer 4

Hi lets use an familiar setting so you can understand it suppose you had a letter to dictate to your secretary for her to type up you put in on tape because you have a board meeting you have someone give her the tape with instructions to type it up and mail it out you werent there but she wrote down your ideas the same is true many of the Apostles were withJesus when he was here on earth and so were very familiar with the things he said and did it took time to write them all down by hand as they didnt have typewriters or computers all who wrote the bible did so under inspiration of the Holy Spirit 2nd Tim 3:16 hope this helps answer your question Gorbalizer

Answer 5

It wasn't written that many years later.

The Q source of Matthew and Luke is thought to need be no more than 15 years later, and is likely (if the early patriarchs are to be believed) an Aramaic written document written by the apostle Matthew himself, an eyewitness to the sermon on the mount.

Mark, in final form, is probably not more than thirty years later. Now I don't know about you, but I can recall quite vividly things that happened thirty years ago for me, and could set them down for you in great detail.

And don't forget Walter Lord's "A Night To Remember", written about the Titanic disaster from eyewitness accounts taken some thirty to forty years later. It is thought to be an exceedingly accurate history by most scholars, but it is no closer in time to its seminal events than the gospels are.

So I just don't understand why people jump up and down so much about this. It is well within most people's powers of recollection to set things down in a non-immediate way.

Answer 6

You do err, sister... There were, no doubt, early written accounts of the life and ministry of Jesus that probably predated the four Gospels.

Also, by the 40s AD New Testament books had been written. All of the New Testament was completed by ca. 80-90 AD. The Synoptics (Matthew, Mark & Luke) were written prior to 70 AD.

What part of the NT can you proof false? I'd like to see your documentation, or are you just parroting what you've heard from other skeptics who parrot what they have heard?

Answer 7

The Bible is not written to prove or disprove people who argue its credibility.
To those who are blessed with faith and trust in God, wisdom is given to them to understand the meaning of the words written in the Bible. You may notice that different people understand different things when they read the same passage.
And one more thing u should know, is that the Bible is not a chronological recording of Jesus' life on earth; it just records accurately how Christ came to fulfil a lot of prophecies spoken by the prophets in the Old Testament.
So that should answer your question!

Answer 8

Because the New Testament is not the "scriptures of Jesus" it is the writings about Jesus. Historically you just have to take what you're given. For example, with the captain's log of Christopher Columbus, the CLOSEST thing you have is an abstract copy of a re-written copy of the original. Because of that, you don't say, "since we don't have the EXACT words of Columbus, I won't believe in Columbus". You just take whatever history gives you, whether its a video tape and signature or a copy of a copy of a copy.

Answer 9

Define "years after." The NT was written between 40 and 100 AD though many believe that most of it was completed before the destruction of the Jewish Temple in AD 79. So a vast majority of the eyewitnesses were around who could refute what was written if it were not true.

Plus the earliest manuscript we still have is from 130 AD, still not "years after" considering that every other ancient manuscript (stuff like "Livy's Roman History" and "Caesar's Gallic Wars") we have is dated at its earliest a at 900 AD

Answer 10

What difference does that make? Are you disputing that the apostles who walked, talked, and touched Jesus aren't capable of writing about it some years later? Now your question has been answered. Am I to believe you wrote this question when you wrote it several minutes ago? Sure why not. Can I believe John or Mark wrote the truth about Jesus after he was raised to heaven? Sure, why not? They saw it happen.