Someone stole the body!

[Jehanne]

GC, there are 27 books of the New Testament; how did the early Church reach that conclusion?  As far as the thief on the Cross, you're writing your "own Gospel"; Mark says that both men mocked Jesus, whereas, Luke says that only one did.  Luke does not say that one thief mocked Jesus, had a change of heart, and then decided to embrace Jesus' message.  Read the text (for "Christ's sake") -- it says that one thief mocked Jesus and was rebuked by the other thief.  That's how things happened in Luke's imagination.  As for the question of infant Baptism, what did the early Church believe prior to the Gospels and letters of Paul being written?  Where did they get their beliefs from?

  I think you need to give some dates for what you consider the early church.
 The church of the first century did not decide what letters would make up the NT, they didn't even know there would be a NT joined to the OT. The disciples preached mostly from the OT showing the people that the Christ prophecies of the OT were about the man Jesus that came and witnessed to them. 

 Why do you think that each writer of the Gospels had to put every little detail in their writings. This is where so many make the mistake of believing there are contradictions in the scriptures. You can take the four Gospels put them together and have a book with more detail a fuller Gospel. Luke did not use his imagination to write his Gospel, Luke states his Gospel was the testimonies of many witnesses of Jesus life.
 By the way I have read the text many times, I've read the Bible from cover to cover and studied it for years.
Like I said above you need to date the years of the church you are speaking of, as far as I know the first century church didn't baptize infants. The first century church were taught by the disciples that traveled to different areas to help the early Christians and from the letters sent to them from the disciples, some which became the NT.

GC

The only "disciple" of Jesus whom scholars have information about is Paul, who never even met Jesus, even though they were practically contemporaries.  A whole host of contradictions exist within the Gospels:

http://infidels.org/library/modern/paul_...tions.html