Is it true that NOT ONE of the people that authored "The Gospels" had any contact with Yeshua(Jesus)??

Question

Since a MAJORITY of "The Gospels" were not written by the people that were credited

Answer 1

Just the opposite. Every one of them were Jesus' disciples.

Answer 2

From a historical perspecitve, that is correct.
All of the cannonized gospels (those that were accepted as being legitiamte by the Roman Catholic Church after the Emperor Constantine made Christianity the state religion of Rome) were written by persons who did not have first hand contact with Yoshua bar Yoseph, or Essa (peace be upon him) or Jesus (if you like the Greek name).
It is also true that the names given to the authors refers to their "school" of teachings. That means that they were writtten by disciples of disciples.
This is a similar situation to that of the Torah and the Penatuech, which were written after the Jews had been enslaved in Babylon. UNtil that time, they had been orally transmitted. Then , when they were written down, you had three different groups trying to gain power (the Eloist, the priestly sect and the scribes). This is one of the reasons you often find three different versions of the same events.
The only scripture that is still maintained in its original language and was written and codified, at least partially, during the life time of the prophet to whom it was revealed in the Holy Qur'an of Islam.
Isn't history marvelous?

Answer 3

Hmmm not even a quote from a website? Hmmm well refuting a claim is difficult since you didn't provide any evidence to back up your claim.

Matthew was a tax-collector, not someone you would want to portray yourself as... I mean if you are trying to deceive people, you will not pose as a hated person. Also he writes like a tax-collector would, very legalistic, and organized. Well educated.

Mark, again, not one of the twelve but a follower of Christ and friend of Peter. Again if someone else would have wrote this gospel, they would have called themselves Peter or James because Peter would be perceived as more credible than a friend of Peter.

Luke, a Gentile physician who learned a lot perhaps from Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was a convert of Paul. Also he wrote very professionally as you would expect.

John, who of all the NT authors was the closest with Jesus besides Peter perhaps, wrote the most personal account about Christ, and his writing is also very simple to translate and is evident of a fisherman.

Paul is another person you wouldn't want to create... Many of the early Christians were kind of upset with the Jews, you wouldn't want to have a Jewish priest right among you, especially a Pharisee (notice Jesus gave a speech in Matthew 23 against the Pharisees, so either this happened to be a real Pharisee who converted to Christianity, or you could say it was someone posing as a Pharisee which would be stupid because the writer of Paul's epistles is obviously very educated in Jewish law, Roman politics, and foreign language puns.

Peter also writes very simple, as a fisherman would.

Jude and James are slightly better writers

Really there is no reason to doubt the authorship of the gospels.

Besides, if you want to get into technical rules.... How could Moses write the five books of Moses when the fifth book includes his death?

How could Joshua's book document the death of Moses if no one knew, supposedly, where Moses was buried? And how could Joshua author his book when it also talks about the death of Joshua? How could Samuel author the book credited to him when it documents his death? Same with David. And the writer of Job is basically totally up-for-grabs. And how could Moses write about Adam and Eve when Moses lived 2500 or so years after them?

And you question the New Testament as unreliable?

Answer 4

It is true that most Biblical scholars don't believe the Gospel authors were actual disciples of Jesus. Mark and Luke were not amongst Jesus' original disciples, and Mark is the earliest written Gospel. There is a document called "Q" for Quelle, or source that it is believed Mathew and Luke had access to, but Mark didn't. John was written the latest of all the Gospels and has a strong agenda of asserting the divinity of Jesus, as well as trying to counter the growth of Gnosticism.

Answer 5

I wasn't going to respond, but these answers are just too bad to pass up:

There is no physical evidence the Gospels existed in the 1st century, so these liberal and “unbelieving” New Testament scholars are ignorant.

The Church has failed to provide evidence for the Gospels before 150 CE.

http://www.thenazareneway.com/gospels_second_century_writings.htm

http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/earlygospeldate.html

http://www.geocities.com/questioningpage/When.html

http://www.geocities.com/b_d_muller/gospels.html

"After having exhausted the literature and the testimony bearing on the point, we have not found a single distinct trace of any of those Gospels during the first century and a half after the death of Christ." ~Walter R. Cassels, author of "Supernatural Religion"

"The first historical mention of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, was made by the Christian Father, St. Irenaeus, about the year 190 A.D. The only earlier mention of any of the Gospels was made by Theopholis of Antioch, who mentioned the Gospel of John in 180 A.D." ~John M. Robertson, Short History of Christianity, quoted in Herbert Cutner, Jesus: God, Man or Myth? (New York: Truth Seeker, 1950) p. 230.

Paul, in his relatively undisputed works (those that hardly any scholars think are forgeries: Romans; I and II Corinthians; Galatians) mentions a Jesus, but says nothing of when he lived other than some unspecified time in the past. These works of Paul predate the Gospel of Mark by between ten and fifteen years. When Paul does talk of "witnesses" to the resurrection, his "facts" differ significantly from those in the Gospel stories, which say nothing of the "500 at one time." Also, Paul's understanding of "resurrection" differs significantly from that described in some Gospel stories, his being very much like a phantom (a seed planted, turning out much differently than the original body), whereas the Gospels tend to describe a simple re-animation of the physical body. http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/em19449.htm

Answer 6

Matthew wrote his gospel, and was one of the original 12 apostles.

John wrote his gospel, plus his epistles, plus the book of revelation, and was one of the original 12 apostles.

Mark was a scribe of Peter, and Mark was also a disciple of Christ, while Jesus walked the earth.

Luke was a scribe for Paul, and he wrote what was given to him by the remaining apostles, and by the Blessed Virgin Mary, who was present at the time.

Your sources are obviously incorrect.

Answer 7

John is the only author of the Gospels that had direct contact with Jesus.

Answer 8

Matthew and John were disciples of Jesus. Mark's Gospel has the character of an eyewitness account and he was an eyewitness. He was also a pal of Peter who was also one of the disciples.

And the bottom line, overall - the traditional view of the Gospels in terms of their authorship, date, and historicity, is supported by the weight of the evidence, and rejected only by those whose own theological agenda forbids them from accepting it.

Answer 9

WHO says they were not written by the people they were authored by?Most of the Books clearly show who wrote them right from the start. Even Paul met Jesus.

Answer 10

John and Matthew were disciples of Jesus and say who they are as they write. It's only a few skeptics that say they really weren't written by them, just so they don't have to believe there were any eyewitness accounts. So, no it's not true at all. Also. Peter was a disciple and he wrote about Jesus in the Epistols as did James and Jude who was Jesus' brother.

Answer 11

Matthew was written by Matthew and he walked with Jesus.
Matthew 9:9 Jesus caught sight of a man named Matthew seated at the tax office, and he said to him "be my follower."
Thereupon he did rise up and followed him.

Mark wrote Mark and he walked with Jesus
Luke wrote Luke and he walked with Jesus
Apostle John walked with Jesus

Acts was written by Luke
Romans was written by Paul and so was the others because they were all letters from Paul.
With the exception of James who was Jesus brother.
Peter was written by Peter and many scriptures show that he most definitely walked with Jesus.
The apostle John wrote John and Revelation He definitely walked with Jesus.
The only one who didn't was Paul and he revealed himself to him in a vision.