(August 27, 2017 at 1:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(August 27, 2017 at 1:49 am)Astreja Wrote: It cannot even be demonstrated that the Gospels are eyewitness accounts. The authorship is unknown; the earliest plausible time of composition is circa 70 CE, decades after the alleged events; and regardless of who they were, all the authors are dead and cannot be cross-examined to validate or discredit their testimony. At this point they're no better than hearsay.
The most important fact is that they do not even make such a claim. That is left to desperate believers to invent long after.
and not too many years after the disciple era, His message is already so mangled by multiple chains of oral transmission that Apostle Paul can traipse in and preach pretty much anything he wants whether it contradicts Jesus or not and he rapidly mutates a lucrative coffer filling version and yet not be burned for heresy because there is no way to tell.
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
