The authorship of the New Testament is known and accepted by your church leaders as not being Mark Luke Jonh Paul etc.
Here is the test: How many will go and ASK their ministers to discover the truth of that statement, and how many will declarre it a lie or blasphamy without ever checking?
2007-09-27 09:32:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
JC,
Then you are no more knowledgeable that the flock you are attempting to lead. Kind of the blind following the blind.
2007-09-27 09:41:20 · update #1
So shephards and fishermen were litterate in those days?
Remember these men were not schollars nor learned men. They were laborers who had little time except to work.
2007-09-27 09:53:48 · update #2
I once posted a question about a myth that predated, yet resembled the story of Jesus.... The responses I got were "That is not true! And if it is, then the Devil did it."
Stubbornness is not a trait of all Christians. And it would be true of some atheist. But the mentality (No matter what you show me, I won't change my mind) is unfortunate.
2007-09-27 09:36:54 · answer #1 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If the Gospels are anonymous, why is there no other surviving tradition of another author for the Gospels? Second-century testimony is unanimous in attributing the four Gospels to the persons that now carry their name. This suggests that they received their titles early; for if they had not, there would have been a great deal of speculation as to who had written them - "a variation of titles would have inevitably risen," as had happened with the apocryphal gospels. It is rather harder to believe that the Gospels circulated anonymously for 60 or more years and then someone finally thought to put authors on them -- and managed to get the whole church across the Roman Empire to agree!
Why then were such unlikely characters chosen as authors? Luke is mentioned a few times by name in the NT, a very obscure personage. Mark was a rotten kid; he abandoned Paul (Acts 15). Matthew was an apostle, but he was also a tax collector - would you pick the IRS man, and an obscure apostle, to author your Gospel? Only John is a logical choice for a pseudonymous author. The strength of this point is demonstrated in that some will use the excuse that obscure persons were deliberately chosen as authors in order to fool us into thinking that this would mean they were authentic!
How could the early Christian community honor the Gospels as authoritative unless they knew who had written them? Even granting such a late date as some critics surmise, it is doubtful that the Gospels could have gotten anywhere unless they were certainly attributable to someone who was recognized as knowing what they were writing about.
2007-09-27 09:41:24 · answer #2 · answered by D2T 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The answers make me LOL.
Not only were these followers of Jesus literate, something rare at the time, but the original gospels were written in Greek, not Aramaic and the language of Jesus.
So they were literate and so well schooled in a foreign language that they chose to write their accounts in that rather than their native tongue.
On a totally unrelated point, I wonder where the guy with the Q avatar is these days. LOL
2007-09-27 10:43:49 · answer #3 · answered by Simon T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The books are written by Mark, Luke, John, Paul, etc. But the problem is, the organization, placement and even choosing of them was done by man.
That is why today we have what is called "the missing books". For those books should of been included as well.
Once one sits and reads ALL the books, THEN the real story starts to unfold. And its not the story taught to most through religion.
2007-09-27 09:41:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I am a minister and it is known and accepted by me that they are in fact the authors.
***UPDATE***
I am for the most part more knowledgeable but not in an arrogant sense. I understand what people claim and I have books on my shelves that people claim that. I don't believe that Isaiah was completely written by Isaiah. But the specific ones you mention I do believe they were written by those authors with exception to possibly the letters of John but there is little reason to believe they weren't written by those people.
2007-09-27 09:39:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Even if I did, you (or someone similar) would come up with 5 new tests next week. Guess I fail your test, oh no.
2007-09-27 09:40:35 · answer #6 · answered by Rossonero NorCal SFECU 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Author of both the OT and the NT is GOD HIMSELF, JESUS CHRIST. Though several men held the writing instruments.
2007-09-27 09:55:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I really dislike condescending "questions"...don't you?
2007-09-27 09:36:20 · answer #8 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋