The God of Convenience

[abaris]

So Papias who lived two to three generations after Jesus died was less able to identify the authors of the gospels than we are today? Papias could have had access to parents or grandparents of Jesus' contemporaries. So tell me why Papias wasn't qualified to determine who wrote the gospels? Here is Papias' own statement concerning his methods of gathering evidence. I'll go with Papias.

That's because you obviously don't know how records were created at this time in history. History had a very different connotation than it has today and it's not as if Papias was like a contemporary hack going out interviewing people and applying the check recheck routine.

Add to this, that it was an age of miracles and believers in whatever supernatural and you get the picture. These records don't stand as evidence by todays standards.