Does it concern you that gospels were written so many years after Jesus died?

[BobVance]

Ah ...your only source...
And the source that was written up to 70 years after the events...
Dare I research another source eh ...

The Bible is the ultimate source. There are other reliable sources, but you have to be sure it aligns with the Word of God.

 

[saintiaint]

Lots of unbelief in your post!

Doubt you mean.
Real faith contains doubt. Didn't you know that?

 

[kcnalp]

You mean you believe God was there.
You don't know.

And you do know? Such irony.

 

[saintiaint]

The Bible is the ultimate source. There are other reliable sources, but you have to be sure it aligns with the Word of God.

You might want to think your whole faith through again Bob. Dont think you've been asking enough questions.

 

[saintiaint]

You are just way too pessimistic and cynical to qualify yourself as a Christian

From your perspective anyway
I need to question.
Have you heard of faith and reason?
We don't totally ignore reason.

 

[saintiaint]

And you do know? Such irony.

The irony is in all in your misinterpretation sir

 

[Jane_Doe22]

Lived and died.
I think Paul's letters were written before the gospels.
John was written about 70 years after Jesus death?
It bothers me. How can the events described in the gospel be totally accurate.
Are we all just too gullible?

For me, my witness of God's Truth comes from testimony of the Holy Spirit to me directly. It doesn't depend on the exact literal accuracy of a human's written account.

 

[kcnalp]

Doubt you mean.
Real faith contains doubt. Didn't you know that?

No, I mean unbelief in what God said.
2 Tim 3 All Scripture is God breathed ...

 

[saintiaint]

For me, my witness of God's Truth comes from testimony of the Holy Spirit to me directly. It doesn't depend on the exact literal accuracy of a human's written account.

See. That's more powerful to me.
Thank you Jane.

 

[kcnalp]

The irony is in all in your misinterpretation sir

What "misinterpretation" is that"

 

[Michiah-Imla]

Scripture your only go to, sir tsk tsk ...

Jude 1:18
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

Boy, the scriptures never fail...

 

[Michiah-Imla]

Ah ...your only source...
And the source that was written up to 70 years after the events...
Dare I research another source eh ...

Another source other than the word of God?

That wound be a waste of time and potentially exposes one to many dangerous doctrines of devils.

 

[Wrangler]

How can the events described in the gospel be totally accurate.
Are we all just too gullible?

What made you become a Christian? When did you turn to Jesus and commit your life to follow him?

 

[Michiah-Imla]

This is from Wikipedia guys.
Wikipedia written by Satan??

How would you know without the Bible? Without the truth?

1 John 4:1
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Ecclesiastes 12:12
And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

 

[saintiaint]

Jude 1:18
How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.

Boy, the scriptures never fail...

Mockers on both sides.
Christians mock unbelievers too.

 

[Wrangler]

Mockers on both sides.
Christians mock unbelievers too.

You strike me as an unbeliever.

 

[kcnalp]

Mockers on both sides.
Christians mock unbelievers too.

So you doubt the Bible. How can you believe any of it? By your wisdom?

 

[Grunt Hemlock]

Carston Peter Thiede wrote a book called The Jesus Papyrus, I think in the mid-90's.

He pushes for way-earlier dates for the gospels than most Bible scholars today.

Kenneth Gentry espouses the early dating of Revelation in the late sixties AD.

I think the whole New Testament could have been written by 70 AD. For any books written AFTER that NOT MENTIONING the Temple destruction would seem odd for me.

 

[friend of]

You cant honestly say that because you don't know. You weren't there.

No, the alternative is to believe that God is incapable and incompetent to have written what He wants for us to read and live by.

 

[friend of]

Doubt is not a dirty word.
Dogmatism is.

Without faith you cannot please God