How did the writings of the NT come to be?

[pocaracas]

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How did the writings of the NT come to be?

I'm not sure these guys aren't poes, but they look legit to me:

In other words: they were written to be consumed by people far far away from the supposed origin of the myth, hence completely unverifiable, even in the first century.
Let's try to put present day names to those ancient places:
Antioch == South Turkey:

Thessalonica == Greece:

Alexandria == Egypt:

Corinth == Greece:

Rome == Italy:



Don't tell me the apostles, or witnesses of christ, wouldn't allow this, because they weren't there, where these writings were written, nor where they were read aloud to the new followers.

Ok, I'll give you that one of the original followers is claimed to have traveled to Rome, so he must have left some accounts along the way.... One man's word... we know how easy it is to misinterpret, to twist the meaning or for the original (or subsequent) story teller to add some embellishment.
Do I have to put the video to the Life of Brian, where he loses his shoe? I think it's been posted on this forum enough times, already!

Israel, where the christ myth originated, remained pretty much jew, in spite of all the "eye witnesses". Only the people from far away believed in the myth...
How convenient!



Here's where Nazareth/Jerusalem is (notice how far far away they are from the "leading churches"):

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Sorry but your analogy does not hold up, first there were churches in Israel, second there was mass trade all through those areas. Rome made this easy by land with all the roads they built and sea travel had been going on for a very long time, so you see that part of the world had shrank because of the easier travel.

100 years ago, there were places in this country (Portugal) where old roman roads (yes, the real 2000 year old things) were the best the people had to go somewhere. Back then, it was common for people never to travel more than 50km away from their home town/village.

My claim is that none of the original witnesses would have, most likely, never traveled to where these "leading churches" were located. Thus, there was no way to verify/discredit the writings they received from any self-entitled authority on the subject.
People believed what they wanted to believe... The story was good and appealed to human decency. That's why it stuck.