(June 8, 2015 at 5:22 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: But more importantly, fifty years goes by...one hundred years goes by...two hundred years. And then an amazing thing happens: we find that the churches which are scattered all over the Roman empire and the Mediterranean DO have names for the gospels - AND THE NAMES ARE THE SAME WHEREVER YOU GO.
It's not as if the Church in Thessalonica called the first gospel, the "Gospel According to Matthew" while a Church in Alexandria referred to it as the "Gospel of Andrew". The Church in Rome did not refer to the last gospel as the "Gospel of Phillip" while that same book was known as the "Beloved Disciple's Gospel" in Antioch.
Holy shit -- you mean that in addition to bringing salvation, Jesus taught us about title pages? The things you learn online!
Seriously, the works had to be conveyed by a written copy. Why would an individual church change the title of a holy book?
Do you realize exactly how lame this argument is?