Tired of xtians prattling on about their "eye-witness" testimony?

[Justtristo]

Who, then, wrote these books?

To be honest,I don't know or care. So far I've seen no credible evidence that the New Testament is anything more than the mythology of Christianity. Any similarities between the Jesus of the NT and some poor little rabbi (called perhaps Yeshua bar Yusuf) who got himself crucified,is purely coincidental.

I have my own theory which a few scholars have argued that Jesus was originally a title given to John the Baptist after his death. There are verses in the New Testament where the apostles say to Jesus that some people thought he was John the Baptist risen from the dead. If one is familar with the work of Robert Eisenman it is clear that the Essenes and Zealots formed at least one "stream' which later contributed to the river of Christianity.

Which would mean that John the Baptist, James the Just, along with the apostles Simon (aka Peter), Jude and John were Essenes and also the last four formed the "pillars' who were the leadership of the Jerusalem "church". Also I would agree with Herman Detering that Simon Magus (a student of John the Baptist) was the character Paul of Tarsus was based off.