Weren't the Four Gospels written after the destruction of Jerusalem & the Second Temple in 70 CE?

Question

They contain 'prediction' of the said destruction, but since predictions of future human.social events are historically impossible, then they must be postdictions, that is, 'predictions' made after the event.

Answer 1

You seem oddly unfamiliar with the huge body of scholarly work that has shown the "predictions," as you call them, of the Bible are accurate, some of them written thousands of years before the event, but describing it perfectly.

Answer 2

The four gospels that we currently recognize in the King James Bible were hand copied, translated and passed around for three hundred years before they were compiled into a single group of books called the Bible.

During that time period people did the same thing they do now, they "adjusted" the writing to be "up to date" or "popular" with the current time frame.

The earliest copies we are aware of were written late first century and early second century.

While there is no direct evidence that earlier documents existed you can look at what people are doing in the present and realize that people were doing the same things in the past that they do today. People really have not changed at all and we are no smarter or dumber than people five thousand years ago.

This is why there are multiple versions of all of the books of the Bible, including the version of Isaiah found with the Dead Sea Scrolls that is different from many other versions of Isaiah.

The biggest problem is lack of education concerning scripture, translation, etc.

I was once having a discussion with a pastor where he was explaining to me that theos meant God. Theos is the root word for theory, theorem and theology, it really means something like "important idea". Capitalized it means "The Important Idea" as opposed to just important ideas like the Pythagorean theorem.

On the other hand, I field a lot of questions like this one that are easily answered with common sense.

The majority of people tend to form opinions and "research" things that agree with their opinions. This leaves you with an uneducated opinion since the opinion was developed before the education.

People choose their beliefs and then research to "prove" those beliefs. Your question is an obvious attempt to "prove" your uneducated opinion is correct.

Answer 3

It depends on where you get your information and how recent the information is, new things are always being learn through archaeological excavations.In the back of my Bible the writers and places where given for the writings of the books of the Bible say some are uncertain and as to the time some are approximate but it shows the date written for Matthew as 41 C.E., Mark as 60-65 C.E., Luke as 58-61 C.E., and John as 98 C.E., The books written by Paul range from 50 C.E. to 64 C.E., the writings of James (Jesus' brother), Jude (Jesus' brother), Peter, and Acts written by Luke were written around 61-65 C.E., and Revelation written by John around 96 C.E. C.E. means our common era.

Answer 4

At least 3 of the gospels are definitely dated as being written after the destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem. One, I think Mark but I could be wrong, is given a probable range that spans the destruction.

Answer 5

They were written well into the 2nd century CE, which makes most of the prophecies about the 1st century CE (the temple been destroyed) post fact. Also most of the noted "christian" historians i.e. Thallus, Josephus, etc are all also dated in the later part of the 2nd century and can not be considered unbiased.

Answer 6

there were many gospels written.
the gospel of thomas and the gospel of mary, the gospel of judas just came out the apocalypse of Paul was favored more than the book of revelation, but it was not cannonized.

Answer 7

That theory is older than dirt and has been proven wrong most likely before you were even born.....