(August 14, 2024 at 9:14 pm)Sheldon Wrote:(August 14, 2024 at 8:55 pm)Belacqua Wrote: I'm saying that this sentence:The earliest they were assigned was in the 2nd century
is false.
OK, so we agree that the thing about the Council of Nicea was wrong. That's good.
Quote:, though there is some dispute
That's true.
Quote:, so this doesn't change the fact that they were unauthored
What does "unauthored" mean? They certainly had authors. People wrote them. (I don't think you want to say that they were revealed by or received from God.)
If you want to say that they were not authored by the individual they get their names from, that's most likely true. The Gospel of Luke was probably not written by Luke. Some of the letters attributed to Paul were written by Paul, and some probably weren't.
Quote:, or that they were written decades after the events they purport to describe.
That's probably true. Although there's some dispute. But "decades" is probably safe.