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to record the events? to name that text bible?

2007-08-12 10:36:18 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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We know next to nothing about Jesus,
The stuff written about him in the Bible was written decades after he supposedly died. The first writings were Paul / Saul who never met Jesus, but only met people who supposedly met him. So, it's second-hand information, at best.

Paul really didn't say much about Jesus. He said nothing about his upbringing or earlier life. He doesn't give much of Jesus' teachings, either.

Decades after Paul wrote about him, suddenly some stories were "remembered" by Mark, or whoever wrote in Mark's name. (It was common in those days to sign a more famous name to your work) The later writings of Matthew, Luke, and John seem to have copied Mark or used similar stories or myths that were being circulated in that day.

There were many other stories written about Jesus, too. As Christianity was becoming more popular, people would add to the legend, just as the Gospel writers did.

Around the mid-300's, Constantine converted to Christianity, and made Christianity a state religion. He convened a council of Bishops to decide what stories would be official canon or not. They rejected the rest, for whatever reasons, calling them the Apocrapha.

After more councils, they decided other doctrine, such as whether Jesus was divine or not, created the concept of the "Trinity", decided that Mary was a virgin and a bit divine herself, and other matters not addressed in the Bible

2007-08-13 04:53:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Nope. They decided to do it about 40 years after he died.

2007-08-12 11:03:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No, but then why would he have to give anyone a specific command or permission to do so?

2007-08-12 11:06:02 · answer #3 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0 0

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