To be honest the more "informed" Christians will claim, "oh no they aren't eye witness testimonies as such, rather they are like contemporary biographies of famous people".
It is plain to anybody who has "sight" so to speak, that nearly all the gospels are either copied wholesale from the old testament or contemporary Hellenistic literature or they are strange interpretations of old testament verses taken out of their original context.
A good example I would give is the flight into Egypt story in the Gospel of Matthew, where Matthew has interpreted Hosea 11:1 which originally meant God's son was Israel not the Messiah to come. So I would recommend highly Robert M Price's book "The Christ Myth Hypothesis and it's Problems" which actually show and explain each verse of the Gospels which has been copied from some other source or another.
It is plain to anybody who has "sight" so to speak, that nearly all the gospels are either copied wholesale from the old testament or contemporary Hellenistic literature or they are strange interpretations of old testament verses taken out of their original context.
A good example I would give is the flight into Egypt story in the Gospel of Matthew, where Matthew has interpreted Hosea 11:1 which originally meant God's son was Israel not the Messiah to come. So I would recommend highly Robert M Price's book "The Christ Myth Hypothesis and it's Problems" which actually show and explain each verse of the Gospels which has been copied from some other source or another.
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