Would you trust a friend who met you when you were 30 to give an accurate account of your birth?

Question

Why do we trust Jesus' friends who met him when he was 30 on their account of his birth?

Why don't we trust his parents?

Where are their gospels?

Answer 1

If he/she lived in a world where such information was passed on orally -- and where this way of passing it on was a very reliable way of passing on information -- then yes, I would trust them wholeheartedly.

Like I said in my answer to your previous question -- you need to stop judging 2,000-year-old events (and people) by 21st century ways of doing things.

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Answer 2

No, I would not trust someone who met me at thirty to give an account of my birth. There is a fragmented copy of the Gospel of Mary that you can read. I think that Biblical Scholars determined it was a fake, though. The earliest Gospel in the Bible was written some 30-70 years after Jesus' death. I am really not sure if anyone wrote anything about him that actually knew him. I'll have to look that up. Have a great day!

Answer 3

The first 4 chapters of Luke is an interview with Mary.Only she would know those things and also it is her geneaology with Joseph tacked on, on the end,because he is the male(chauvanists in those days)Her line comes through Nathan son of David whereas,Joseph's comes through Solomon son of David.I believe the gospel of Mark was finished by 45 AD ,lessthan 15 yrs,after Jesus ascended.His version was the version told to him from Peter because Mark was pretty young.He mentions himself in the Garden towards the end ,as the lad who was wearing a sheet and was pulled off of him in the ruckus of the arrest.There's many other reasons to trust the accounts but no time to write so much.

Answer 4

That is an interesting point. You would at least think the three wise guys would have written something about it.

Some will say the mother shared the story with the apostles and they wrote about it. Some may say that Jesus knew the story hisself and shared it with them. However, that introduces a lot of potential error in the story. How many times does a parent exagerate something about his or her kids? How many times does a parent remember something wrong?

What makes sense is that the apostles figured their friend they beleived was a god needed something more than a humble birth.

Answer 5

Jesus mother related the story of his birth to the Gospel writers, she was still alive.

Answer 6

The whole story was made up by the Catholic church, who by the way stole all their info from Pagan Zoroastrian beliefs. And Christians dont even bother to research their own belief history. pitiful

Answer 7

gnostic gospels

Answer 8

They weren't big in to writin’.