Illiterate men.

[Drich]

Did you have one too many?

New computer, new spell check program. Still a bit glitchy everything looks good on my end then it posts all cattywhompus. Either that or one of the mods is trying to "help" me with my posts.

I would say 99% of church tradition puts John death on old age.

Tradition meaning Church held documents and historical records. Any and all documents concerning christianity were obtained by the church as the curtain on the dark ages fell. They did this for control over the religion/preservation of the word. The problem here is unless you have the key to the Vatican's archives you are always going to be somewhat limited to Church tradition.

there are ques but the interpretation of said ques fall back on a traditional understanding of who Mat was.

So what holds together all the supposed facts about how we got these manuscripts and who their authors were fall back on Church tradition? In other words, the manuscripts don't speak for themselves..
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My comment was directed at the book of Matthew. The other three stand on their own merit.