How did the writings of the NT come to be?

[John V]

No, that wouldn't be your fault, but is your choice to ignore that they have been.
(Why should anyone continue this conversation with you, given the way you've handled it thusfar John? )

First, feel free to bow out. I get the feeling that, while you're aproaching 11,000 total posts, you're approaching 11 quality posts.

Second, perhaps you don't understand the flow of this line of the discussion. It goes like this:

A: There's no contemporaneous Roman documentation of the claims of Christianity.
C: This is an argument from silience. To be valid, you need to support that we should reasonably expect to find contemporaneous Roman documentation of the claims of Christianity.
A: OK, here's Tacitus talking about Druids.
C: OK, here's Tacitus talking about Jesus.
A: Tacitus wasn't a contemporary of Jesus, so that's not contemporaneous Roman documentation of the claims of Christianity.
C: If Tacitus wasn't a contemporary of Jesus, then you still haven't given any support to the claim that we should reasonably expect to find contemporaneous Roman documentation of the claims of Christianity.
A: You're a moron, why do we even bother talking to you!!!