12-05-2008, 03:07 AM | #1 |
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The Four Gospels
I have been asking around about something my New Testament professor said. He stated that there is a good chance that, based on historical chronology and authorship investigation by scholars, the four gospels may not have been written by their supposed authors. He also went on to say that when you take out the menial stories that don't really say anything about Jesus in the gospels you find 4 different stories about who Jesus was.
Has anyone heard anything about this? I'm trying to get in touch with Bart Ehrman at UNC Chapel Hill so that I can talk to him about this.
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12-05-2008, 03:26 AM | #2 |
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Yes, people have heard of this.
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12-05-2008, 03:32 AM | #3 |
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Great simplicity. I ask under what circumstances did you hear it.
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12-05-2008, 04:04 AM | #4 |
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The significant amount of liberal biblical scholarship posits this premise, but given the problems with establishing anything biblical, no conclusions have been reached. What are you looking for?
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12-05-2008, 04:48 AM | #5 |
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I don't mean to sound cheeky, but I don't understand why this would lead anyone to believe that the books were not written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. They are four different people, each with a different perspective, who I assume were familiar with what had been written previously, and sought to add to that. For example, my dad, my brother, my daughter, and my BFF would each give a different account of who I am and what I did with my life.
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Is the abstract idea we call 'faith' enough? Faith lacks physical merit. I'm okay with that. Is it possible that we allow a possibly fictional story to dictate the way we live our lives? The idea of a 'testimony' which is based solely on that warm fuzzy feeling in our chest isn't enough either. It isn't a blanket that keeps us warm but a blanket that clouds our vision of a possible truth instead of supposed known truth. To the point...What if Jesus isn't who we have been told he was? I'm not trying to create doubt. I will leave that up to the individual. But what does this mean for Christianity? What course do we choose if this is true? Or is Nietzche right when he stated that the only true Christian died on the cross and the rest are all hypocrites? Does this mean that Christianity died with the supposed son of God? These are just things I have been thinking about from my NT class and my philosophy class.
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Christ dies in 30 C.E. Paul starts in 48 C.E. Mark 65 C.E. Temple destroyed Matthew/Luke 85 C.E.--Luke could have been 135 C.E. John 95 C.E. These are the times that the gospels were written. However, the deaths of some apostles and disciples date some time before their gospels, epistles, etc.
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And then we have the Pauline epistle problem. So it's really fancy guesswork.
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Authentic: 1 & 2 Corinthians Philipians Galatians Philemon Romans 1 Thessalonians Fraudulent: Ephesians 2 Thessalonians 1 & 2 Timothy Titus Colossians The tone and attitudes in the fraudulent letters are very different from the authentic. I spoke with Dr. Metzger at Princeton about this. He agrees with some of my assumptions. The only authentic letter,IMO, that he disagrees with is 1 Thessalonians. He thinks it is fraudulent as well.
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12-07-2008, 08:49 PM | #10 |
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They also say the Iliad and the Odyssey was not written by Homer, but by another author of the same name. We know nothing about Homer, incidentally, but that he wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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