Drich Wrote:Not shaky, We just do not know exactly who wrote the account, nor do we have a clear time frame in which it was written.Agreed. So not only do you need faith in Christ, but you need to have faith that it was a witness who wrote these things, which we can't know for sure. To me, that's a 'shaky foundation' to go from.
Quote:All of that aside we have three collaberating accounts that paint the same picture.Are you sure about that? Mark is missing a birth story and resurrection story. John is set apart from the synoptic Gospels because it's different enough in content and theology from the other 3. Luke must an extrapolation (like Matthew) of Mark because according to scholars Mark was the first written. Archaeology backs this up as well so far.
Quote:How so?We can be suspicious of the other accounts because once you realise the infallible word of God contains hearsay in the form of the Gospel of Matthew, then that throws the doors wide open for the others. Who wrote them?
Quote:Luke was not speaking to the account of Mark.Scholars and archaology are in agreement that Mark was already written. Luke had access to it just like Matthew did.. hence the synoptic Gospels.
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