chatpilot,
You say Christians look foolish for believing by faith what we read, but you do the same exact thing. How do you know who was on the council that determined the canon of scriptures? Because you read somewhere that it was clergy, and you believed that by faith. (BTW, it does not make sense to have non-believers determine what should be in the Bible does it?)
You are correct in that we have no evidence that Matthew or Mark wrote the Gospels attributed to them. However, you are incorrect in denying Luke's authorship of the gospel named for him. Luke also wrote the book of Acts. When you do a proper study, you find the evidence that he did in fact write both letters.
You are also wrong about the eyewitnesses. John and Peter were both eyewitnesses of Jesus and His ministry. Paul was an eyewitness of the resurrected Jesus. Paul also wrote that at least 500 people were eyewitnesses of the risen Jesus.
Here's the real courious thought...why do we not have even one piece of written evidence of the time to counter these claims? I mean, if these Christian letters were being circulated around and someone knew them to be false, why did they not expose them as frauds? Thousands of pieces of evidence for Christ, but not one shred to counter the claims. And you claim I look foolish...
You say Christians look foolish for believing by faith what we read, but you do the same exact thing. How do you know who was on the council that determined the canon of scriptures? Because you read somewhere that it was clergy, and you believed that by faith. (BTW, it does not make sense to have non-believers determine what should be in the Bible does it?)
You are correct in that we have no evidence that Matthew or Mark wrote the Gospels attributed to them. However, you are incorrect in denying Luke's authorship of the gospel named for him. Luke also wrote the book of Acts. When you do a proper study, you find the evidence that he did in fact write both letters.
You are also wrong about the eyewitnesses. John and Peter were both eyewitnesses of Jesus and His ministry. Paul was an eyewitness of the resurrected Jesus. Paul also wrote that at least 500 people were eyewitnesses of the risen Jesus.
Here's the real courious thought...why do we not have even one piece of written evidence of the time to counter these claims? I mean, if these Christian letters were being circulated around and someone knew them to be false, why did they not expose them as frauds? Thousands of pieces of evidence for Christ, but not one shred to counter the claims. And you claim I look foolish...
