RE: How did the writings of the NT come to be?
October 23, 2012 at 9:33 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2012 at 9:45 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote:We know that the Christians believed those things.
The issue is....WHEN did they believe them?
Justin Martyr tells the story c 160 AD in his First Apology to Antoninus Pius but "Paul" never mentions never mentions the Lord's Prayer, the Transfiguration, the Sermon on the Mount, Mary, Joseph, Bethlehem, the 3 Wise Men,Herod's Slaughter of the Innocents, Galilee, Nazareth, Pontius Pilate, Judas Iscariot, Gethsemane, or Calvary.
Of course, Justin never heard of "Paul" either. It is a puzzle. The one thing that is certain is that the later story cobbled together by the church as "orthodoxy" is horseshit.