(July 20, 2017 at 4:57 pm)SteveII Wrote: 1.3- The NT consists of 27 different documents written over 50 years time (give or take). It's a little bit of an understatement to describe such a diverse collection of palaeographical gold as if it were one thing: the claim.
Evidence for this claim are the people and events surrounding the life of Jesus that the authors wrote about. It is not as if the gospel writers wrote an essay on what people were saying and gave no opinion on the facts. They were testifying to its truthfulness (as evidenced by their own experience or by interviewing eyewitnesses as they wrote it).
Steve,
No scholar believes that the New Testament was written over a period of 50 years:
http://earlychristianwritings.com/
Dawn