Shit. What The Hell. Jesus Never Existed

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As a poster pointed out, there are no surviving original manuscripts.  So of course later story-tellers added new details to the oral stories when they wrote them down.  The guys who wrote the Islamic hadiths did so centuries after Mohammed supposedly bit the dust and they are ful of all kinds of BS details.  People will always support their favorite religious lies.  It's basic human nature.

You really need to start learning Wyrd. Islam believes that the original wording of the Bible was lost, and therefore Muhammad was tasked with fixing it. It's an elaborate lie that the bible was "systematically altered over time" and this has been proven by the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Of course that doesn't mean that what we have today is exactly what was written down in 700 BC or whenever it was that the Old Testament was written, since most scholars do believe that the Pentateuch in particular was written down in stages by multiple authors.

That doesn't apply to the New Testament. Each NT author has their own style, their own unique vocabulary which fingerprints their work. In particular I'm talking about Paul and Luke who both wrote quite a bit, and even though Paul used scribes (and Luke probably did as well but he doesn't explicit say so) their style is recognisable from their works.

The gospel of Mark could have been written down in stages, and this has been theorised. It appears that both Luke and Matthew had an earlier version of the gospel from which they copied into their works. Most scholars believe they also had a sayings document similar to "Thomas".