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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (230300)	4/22/2005 12:37:48 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573249

>However, the notion that the Gospels were written by anyone else besides Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is a fantasy born out of the post-modernist double-standard against Christianity. How do you figure? From what I've been reading, they discuss events that occur after anyone who would've known Jesus would've been alive, and Jesus' disciples were his contemporaries... so unless they were edited and appended to, the Gospels weren't written by Jesus' disciples. It also is pretty fishy that there was a hell of a lot of writing and record-keeping done in the Roman Empire, and a lot in Palestine at the time, and no contemporary documents mention Jesus. -Z

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (230300)	4/22/2005 2:42:44 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573249

However, the notion that the Gospels were written by anyone else besides Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John is a fantasy born out of the post-modernist double-standard against Christianity. The mountains of evidence supporting the traditionalist viewpoint is dismissed as hearsay and legend, while the shreds of evidence supporting whatever wacky theories the skeptics can think of are held up to close scrutiny simply because it goes against the "Christian grain." The fact there is no secular written or recorded record of Jesus's existence tends to bear out the "wacky theories" of the skeptics. That's the problem. Something as simple as "I saw Jesus speaking to the masses" from a noted historian of the time would give him some legitimacy. However, there is nothing according to the skeptics. ted