The Bible Code
There is a good deal of evidence that points to very early authorship of the gospel accounts, the biography portion of the new testament. Eusebius, an early church historian, writing in the first quarter of the 4th century, quotes earlier writers from the first century quoting the gospels, meaning that the gospels as we have them today were circulating within a hundred years of the events and were probably around when witnesses to the events could still refute obvious inaccuracies. I would agree with the 400 year number only in so far as that is when the canon was established, not when the accounts were written down.
Originally posted by PyRo99@Dec 27 2004, 09:45 AM
Thats what I love Kira.
If the Bible was compeleted 400 years, after Christ's death. How could they remeber all of these things he supposedly said? Interestingly enough, we've chosen to believe it was him saying it, for more than a thousand years.
There is a good deal of evidence that points to very early authorship of the gospel accounts, the biography portion of the new testament. Eusebius, an early church historian, writing in the first quarter of the 4th century, quotes earlier writers from the first century quoting the gospels, meaning that the gospels as we have them today were circulating within a hundred years of the events and were probably around when witnesses to the events could still refute obvious inaccuracies. I would agree with the 400 year number only in so far as that is when the canon was established, not when the accounts were written down.