accounts, and are taken from ORAL tradition?????
2007-04-09 17:06:46 · 33 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
My source: The History Channel, just turn it on right now.
2007-04-09 17:13:16 · update #1
Do you know the testimony of the Gospel of Luke itself asserts first hand testimony (Luke 1:1-4), just as does the Gospel of John (19:35), The First Letter of John (I John 1:1-4) and the Second Letter of Peter (II Peter 1:16-19)?
It really gets tiresome hearing the assertions of so-called scholars who feel they know more about the Books of the New Testament than the men who wrote them.
2007-04-09 17:16:04 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Jesus was indeed mentioned in writings outside of the Bible, but the question is why is there suddenly a need for writings outside of the Bible? There is no extra texts needed to discuss Julius Caesar or Alexander the great. There are fewer original texts about these with the earliest original texts written nearly three hundred years after the fact. This shows that if Jesus can be questioned because he is only mentioned by his followers, there is also a need to question the rest of antiquity because the sources for these are also not written by those who followed at the time of the occurrences of the events inscribed. The texts written by Paul were written, in some cases, within ten years of the death of Jesus, as is widely accepted by non-Christian scholars such as Bart Ehrman. While the writing by Josephus does appear to be out of place, it is not the only part of his writing where he departs on a tangent. I pray that this helps.
2016-05-21 04:14:55 · answer #2 · answered by dimple 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it's why Matthew tells about the dead rising & walking about on the day of Jesus' crucifixion yet no one else ever mentions it in the New Testament, it's like that scene in Ghostbusters where the dead were risen-but nobody writes of it except Matthew?! The birth of Jesus is kind of messed up too, what with sheep not wandering about in winter, they'd be eating hay in a barn or stoop or whatever it was they had back then.
2007-04-09 17:28:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know the first of the gospels were written about 60 years after and then the others followed, one by one, building on the previous ones, often misquoting incorrect translations as they expanded the myth.
2007-04-09 18:57:52 · answer #4 · answered by Rabble Rouser 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever played the game "telephone"? It's when you get a group of people together, and you get in a line and the first person thinks of something to say, and whispers it into the next persons ear. Each person then whispers into the ear of the next and the last person gets up and says what he/she heard. It is always grossly perverted from the original. What would make the Bible any different?
2007-04-10 07:36:02 · answer #5 · answered by Chic 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
get a life nick, you know that this is NOT true. How can you say that when you know better. Even if it were true, Moses was not watching when God created the world, yet He is the one God used to tell us of what exactly happened. Revelation is still being played out, it was written 2000 years ago.
How about the letters that PETER wrote and John, they were with the Lord and each one verifies the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Get a life Nick, why do you come here with these silly questions?????????????? What is your agenda Nick???
2007-04-09 17:18:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, that is why I do not take for granted all that is written in the bible. Especially when you know that the four gospels, were CHOSEN among over thirty and that the 26 others did not tell the same things...
2007-04-09 17:20:59 · answer #7 · answered by pegs 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
wow so you are your own source? Actually no. IT was written by Matthew Mark Luke John. Also you clearly don't understand the context of oral tradition. Just like a scribe or monk would have to re write a whole passage if even one letter was off or missing, in oral tradition spoken words were critically analyzed by other members in the community. It is simply no myth telling but a tradition held in high standard.
2007-04-09 17:12:13 · answer #8 · answered by Panda WafflesZilla 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋
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2007-04-09 17:21:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
were you there? A few weeks ago we learned that Jesus tomb had been found only to find out later that it was a mistake.
I don't think anyone really remembers when the gospels were written. It was a long time ago.
2007-04-09 17:12:11 · answer #10 · answered by songndance1999 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋