Who Wrote the Books of New Testament? (Jesus, Moses, Earth)

[Bangbang]

Many believe they are forgeries and not writtten by the apostles but other men. Why were they written decades after the death of Jesus.

[Aqualung]

All the books? Matthew - Matthew. Mark - Mark. Luke - Luke. John, John. Romans-Hebrews - Paul. James - James. 1 & 2 Peter - Peter. 1, 2, & 3 John - John. Jude - Jude. Revelation - John.

The epistles were written decades later because that's when people started falling away and needed that extra prodding to keep them on the right track. Revelation was written later because Jesus didn't think it was good to reveal that stuff while he was on earth; it had to wait until later. As for the gospels, they probably weren't written down until later because they were busy, and didn't see a need for them to be written so soon after he died.

[Popeyesays]

Originally Posted by Bangbang

Many believe they are forgeries and not writtten by the apostles but other men. Why were they written decades after the death of Jesus.

Who wrote the books of the Old Testament?

The Torah and the TaNakh were not written in their present form until about two hundred years before Christ. Though attributed to Moses, the Torah gives very clear signs of five different authors.

The fact is that the books of the Torah and the TaNakh were written before that, but they were not compiled and given a recision until around 200 BC, that's more than a millenia after the time of Moses. The books existed in oral traditions and in written versions that differed from each other by distance and dialect.

This is true of the Gospels as well. But its decades not centuries. The oral tradition and early lost written works were not put into final form as the New Testament until the COuncil of Nicaea.

The Qur'an existed for a number of years in various versions. Fear that those versions would cause schism prompted Umar to order that a perfect version be written down and distributed to the various Muslim communities so that the Qur'an would be protected. To further that he ordered the destruction by fire of older versions.

Not until the 19780's were any of these earlier writings of the Qur'an ever found.

I don't think it matters, Bang. God is sufficent protection for His words.

I am just glad that as a Baha`i, we have in archives all of the writings of Baha`u'llah in His own hand or as taken down during dictation by a handful of secretaries.

Regards,
Scott

[Solon]

Originally Posted by Aqualung

All the books? Matthew - Matthew. Mark - Mark. Luke - Luke. John, John. Romans-Hebrews - Paul. James - James. 1 & 2 Peter - Peter. 1, 2, & 3 John - John. Jude - Jude. Revelation - John.

The epistles were written decades later because that's when people started falling away and needed that extra prodding to keep them on the right track. Revelation was written later because Jesus didn't think it was good to reveal that stuff while he was on earth; it had to wait until later. As for the gospels, they probably weren't written down until later because they were busy, and didn't see a need for them to be written so soon after he died.

How do you know that Jesus thought anything at all about what Revelations is saying ? And as Revelations is a clear statement in code for the Churches of Asia to stand firm against Roman Persecution, I think your statement is somewhat comical.

I really can't believe what you wrote, but as you wrote it then I must. Whoever compiled the the gospels of NT are unknown. Consensus of scholary opinion is that they were written around AD70, the time of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus. In my opinion, the authors will never be known. All one can say is that the Gospel of John is anti-Jewish in tone.

[Solon]

http://www.abu.nb.ca/courses/NTIntro/Luke.htm

I have been present when this wuestion has been raised in a discussion before, they say the Gospels were written 50-70 years after Christ had departed.

wuestion=question(sorry)

[Solon]

At least. and they are not first hand accounts, so by this very fact, are unreliable.

S

[Buttons*]

Originally Posted by Solon

At least. and they are not first hand accounts, so by this very fact, are unreliable.

S

thats right, as far as literalism goes.

There are people who did write gospels who arent even included in the Bible...

but again, thats off topic...

Weren't some of Pauls letters written Before the birth of christ? I read that somewhere....

[Bangbang]

Originally Posted by gnosis_777

There are people who did write gospels who arent even included in the Bible...

but again, thats off topic...

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No its not. I like this article. I also went to the library and read parts of some of the gospels that were rejected by the early Christian Church. Very interesting especailly the Gospel of Mary.