Brian2
Veteran Member
I'm not aware the church retained any records from the 1st century. There is a disputed epistle from Clement that Biblical scholars claim dates from 90 CE or so. Do you know of any such authentic records dated to before 90 CE? I am not.
Most, if not all of the New Testament was written before 90CE. John's Gospel is probably the exception. These documents are records that the church retained from the first century and they retained them because they were seen as authentically by apostles or people who knew apostles and others who had seen and heard Jesus.
The secular historians bring secular bias into their dating and assume that the prophecy of the temple destruction must have been written after 70AD and that the writers would probably not be people who knew Jesus.