• NegativeInf@lemmy.world
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      That was Revelations, which was written far after anyone who ever saw Jesus would have died, and describes Jesus’ divine form. The only gospel that describes anything about him was about a transformation. “His face shown like the sun,” but that is in Luke, so between 50 and 80 years after his purported death, and continued to be edited throughout the second century. So essentially it’s all made up and none of it matters.

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        I remember when I learned all the gospels were written decades after the “fact.”

        I can’t remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, and we are supposed to believe people played a game of telephone for a few decades and got everything correct when writing it down?

        Sure, Jan.

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          The gospels were, while written decades after the fact, written by people who were alive at the time. It’s not really a game of telephone.

          It turns out that when a guy dies in his early 30s, most of his buddies are still alive 30-50yrs later.

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            None of the Gospels were written by the apostles. They didn’t even have names until much, much later. I’m talking centuries.

            Life expectancy was also much shorter

            Mathew and Luke are both just re-writes of Mark. Mark is the oldest out of them all, and the oldest surviving versions we have are not designated a name.

            It was a marketing ploy much later to give each gospel a name of one of his apostles to give them more credibility.

            Some parts of Mathew and Luke are even word for word copies from Mark, which suggests that they are revisions from a different party who decided to edit in their own ideas.

            Hell, the original version of Mark actually has a different ending than the one we got in the modern Bible.

            John comes much, much later which is why it’s so different than the other three. It’s Spaceballs.

            None of the Gospels were written by anyone who personally knew him.