(February 1, 2016 at 4:37 pm)athrock Wrote: This is wishful thinking on your part.......so you're invoking a shadowy oral history not in evidence -as- evidence of the historicity of a shadowy story that -is- in evidence? I think that you might be headed down a terrible path, lol.
Roughly akin to saying that a New York Mets fan wouldn't be able to know when his team had won its championships...regardless of when that fan was born...without ever reading a book. A grandfather would tell his grandson about the Miracle Mets of '69. A father would tell his son about how the Mets were one out away from losing before coming back to win in '86. History that is passed on orally is history nonetheless.
Quote:Peter and Paul taught Clement and Ignatius. John discipled Polycarp and Papias. Polycarp discipled Irenaeus who mentored Hippolytus.
The Early Church knew EXACTLY who wrote the gospels because it knew the men who wrote them and it knew the men who knew the men who wrote them. And it knew the men who knew the men who knew the men...generation after generation after generation.
Wipe your mouth. Take a breath. Again I'll simply suggest that they didn't know, and couldn't have known. One hopes that they chose narratives which conformed to their expectations and the needs of the church. Otherwise, what would the point have been?
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