On Hell and Forgiveness

[The Grand Nudger]

Wait, what? Peter, James and John were certainly eyewitnesses and authors of books of the NT. Luke wrote Luke and Acts by speaking to eyewitnesses. So...there's that. No one thinks that the apostle with the name actually took up the pen.

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Wait, what..indeed...and that's before we even begin to mention that the statement above is an article of your faith - not a historical fact.  Acts, is known fiction..and this is known even to the fundy asshats.  You're referring to eyewitnesses to fairy tales, here.  

It was understood that the other three gospels were the accounts from three different groups surrounding the apostles and undertaken by three editors ALL WITHIN the lives of eyewitnesses --including any rebuttal witnesses.

Understood by whom, nutballs with beliefs that need buttressing?

Further, there is no reason to suspect the content of the gospels because the content was already believed decades earlier in the churches as well as referred to in ALL the epistles. 

That would, at best demonstrate that someone believed the contents - but..ofc, that's not necessarily the case.

So, over a period of 50 years, at least nine authors wrote 27 books containing no less than 55 major doctrines and 180 doctrinal concepts centered on one figure – Jesus Christ. Even further--there are no coherent alternate theory that explains the books AS WELL AS the churches across the Roman Empire that believed that Jesus rose from the dead PRIOR TO 50AD. 

You missed a zero on that one.  There were churches and temples all over rome that believed in all sorts of silly shit, in any case. Get back to me the next time you make a sacrifice to jupiter.

So, it would seem that your "the NT were *not* written by eye-witnesses" is not only an assertion, it is plain false. 

You don't seem to think they were written by eyewitnesses either, even though you believe that somebody just must have witnessed this stuff...even and especially the shit that never happened.