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How so? We can pick up a copy of the Gospel of Mark and read the collected memoirs of Peter, who was not at all distant from the events described therein. We can pick up the Gospel of Matthew and read the sermons of Jesus, which Matthew was on the scene to record
You don't see multiple translation, inaccuracies in transcribing, varied version, etc as further from the original.
You have used those things as reasons apologetics before. Are you know saying that the bible is unchanged from the 1st draft?
Then there's the council of Nicaea etc, that cleaned and assembled the texts.
Plus it seems more than likely that the gospels were oral for a significant time before being transcribed. The oldest copy or remnants about 125 years after christ, which means its anyone's guess who really wrote them.
The authorship of the gospels is not a confirmed fact, and is most likely not those named.
Heck, there is serious doubt (ie extra biblical proof) that jesus even lived, let alone lived twice.
Then there's the more cynical look that the people writing the gospels where pushing their own agendas, which would lead to them deciding on bits to edit or dramatise. Wouldn't be all that surprising to find that the people starting the christian religion wanted to portray Jesus as risen from the dead.
Or the author whom the others plagiarised could of been delusional.
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"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
-- Mark Twain
"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
-- Mark Twain
