Godschild Wrote:The third person could have been there because the copyist did not want people believing the authors had written the copies, thus being a reason the authors names were not included. Of coarse this is what I think, it does seem reasonable.By third person I mean the style of writing. Matthew's Gospel doesn't say 'I did this, I did that' but rather 'Matthew did this, Matthew did that'. The original therefore couldn't have been written by Matthew. If you understand this and are still saying the copyist changed it then that is only plausible if the copyist was an 'enemy' to Christianity. Why would a Christian copy it into third person thus making it lose credibility?
Quote:The Gospels are for teaching, some history can be taken from them. I do not believe that I said that the Gospels were for history, I know them as teachings for my own personal life.
Fair enough.
Quote:About Luke, he never claimed to be an Apostle, he was a physician. Do you believe that a historian would have made the mistakes unbelievers say are in Luke?He was a good historian because he tells us the purpose of his message and where he got the information. Regardless, it's plausible that he genuinely made that mistake, he was a fallible human like the rest of us.
Quote:I've never said historians wrote the Gospels, ( Josephus was a warrior not a historian, he also was a traitor). The writers of the Gospels were not historians, their work does not resemble the work of a historians. They were presenting the life of Christ through His teachings, and I personally believe they did a great job.
Personally I do not know people who look at the Gospels as historical writings, they do see there is a time line of Christ's life through His teachings.
In the bold: just before you implicitly said that Luke was a historian as a means to give him credibility. Was he or was he not a historian?
It seems like you've blurred the line between history and teaching. So how do we know what was actually history? Did Jesus die on the cross?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
