OT - Understanding "The Bible"

[Ignazio Palmisano]

Kelly L. Fulks wrote:
> Billie Walsh wrote:
>> Probably going to make a few enemies here.
[snip]
>> Third. No part of the New Testament was written during, or immediately
>> after, the life of Jesus. The oldest books were written down about
>> eighty years after his death. Here again stories were passed down word
>> of mouth. None of the writers had first hand knowledge of what they were
>> writing. 

[snip]

> Third, I don't know of anyone that would argue the point of nothing in
> the New Testament being written during the life of Jesus.  The first
> books were likely written about 20 years after his death.  However, your
> 80 year estimate is likely way off.  Since many of the books of the New
> Testament were letters written by the Apostle Paul and since he was
> killed in about A.D. 67, it is likely that most of the books were
> written before that.  It is highly unlikely that he wrote these letters
> after his death.  The last books written were written by the Apostle
> John who died around A.D. 100, so that is still less than 70 years after
> the death of Jesus.

The most recent book I read places the writings of all gospels and 
various letters between 50 dc and 120 dc. Case in point, biblists of 
different religions (even catholics, lol) agree that none of the gospels 
have been written by the apostles themselves, and John's especially is 
the one which shows signs of additions and rewritings.

BTW, AD 100? from AD 33? if he was 20 when Jesus was alive, that would 
mean he was over 90 when he died. Back then the average lifespan of a 
civus romanus was about 40 years, isn't that stretching it a bit?

OT again :)
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