Evolution and Christianity and Salvation

[fredd bear]

"Retard.. Peter himself could not read or write. So he used a scribe. that scrib's name was commonly refered to as saint mark. Meaning the book of mark is peter's gospel.
So peter's gospel was indeed included."
 
It is not generally accepted that any of the disciples were  involved in writing the gospels. It is accepted that Gospels were written not earlier than 70  ce .Some scholars think it's more like  100 years.  As far was I'm aware the names of the gospel authors were chosen arbitrarily ,and were unconnected  with the original disciples


"Gospel[Notes 1] originally meant the Christian message itself, but in the 2nd century it came to be used for the books in which the message was set out.[1] The four canonical gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — were written between AD 70 and 100,[2][3] building on older sources and traditions,[4] and each gospel has its own distinctive understanding of Jesus and his divine role.[5] All four are anonymous (the modern names were added in the 2nd century), and it is almost certain that none were written by an eyewitness.[6] They are the main source of information on the life of Jesus as searched for in the quest for the historical Jesus. Modern scholars are cautious of relying on them unquestioningly, but critical study attempts to distinguish the original ideas of Jesus from those of the later authors.[7][8] Many non-canonical gospels were also written, all later than the four, and all, like them, advocating the particular theological views of their authors.[3] "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel

"In the early centuries of Christianity, there were over 200 Christian gospels in circulation, all of them containing wildly varied stories and theologies1. As the Church became organized there was much worry that no-one truly knew what Jesus had said or done, so they ratified just four Gospels: They picked the number four because "there were four winds, four points of the compass, four corners of the temple", mirroring the arguments of Irenaeus in the 2nd century - "just as the gospel of Christ has been spread by the four winds of heaven over the four corners of the earth, so there must be four and only four Gospels"2. The four canonical gospels comprise of synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke) plus John. None are eye-witness accounts of Jesus' life and they are all written in Greek, not in the native tongues of anyone who met and followed Jesus. Many of the stories in the Gospels are copied from Greek god-man legends, especially those of Dionysus and Osiris. Although we now know them by the names of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, they are all originally anonymous3."

http://www.humanreligions.info/gospels.html


Oh yeah... Paul didn't write letters to several locations explaining how his view of the church was to be.

There's a bit of a problem with the Epistles of Paul; scholars now accept that several are forgeries, and there is doubt about others.

Regardless, Paul is the most significant figure in early Christianity, not Jesus..  Many scholars argue that Christianity should actually be called "Paulism"

--without Paul to abolish the ritual parts of Mosaic Law, allowing gentiles to join, Christianity would have remained a small Jewish sect, and fade way after a few  generations.

"The Pauline epistles, Epistles of Paul, or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament, composed of letters which are largely attributed to Paul the Apostle, although authorship of some is in dispute. Among these letters are some of the earliest extant Christian documents. They provide an insight into the beliefs and controversies of early Christianity and as part of the canon of the New Testament they are foundational texts for both Christian theology and ethics. The Epistle to the Hebrews, although it does not bear his name, was traditionally considered Pauline for a thousand years, but from the 16th century onwards opinion steadily moved against Pauline authorship and few scholars now ascribe it to Paul, mostly because it does not read like any of his other epistles in style and content.[1] Most scholars agree that Paul really wrote seven of the Pauline epistles, but that four of the epistles in Paul's name are pseudepigraphic (Ephesians, First Timothy, Second Timothy, and Titus[2]); scholars are divided on the authenticity of two of the epistles.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_epistles

I did some digging on 'Paul as founder of Christianity" . There is a LOT of stuff online. The answer varies depending on on the mind set set; Christians tend to say no,  atheists and humanists are more likely to say  yes.


Just a couple of minor points. I pretty much agree with the rest of your post