(March 13, 2015 at 5:54 pm)Lek Wrote: We do have writings by eyewitnesses in the new testament from (of course) contemporaries; and not just one. Where do you get the proof for your statement Mini?
Where do you get the eyewitness from? Because the author says so?
We're talking about 40 years after the event and that's taking it generous. Do you know what life expectancy was back then in that particular region? Do you think one of the apostles travelled all the way to Greece or Rome to tell their tale? By all accounts these weren't educated or wealthy people.
No, the authors did what all the historians did in their times. They collected tales and made up their own story out of everything they were told. That's how it was done in these days. It's not like today, where a journalist goes through the check and recheck process or a historian, who's critical about his sources.
And before you ask, same goes for Roman or Greek secular authors.