(October 19, 2012 at 5:17 am)pocaracas Wrote: Rome == Italy:
This was the roman empire at the time of Christ:
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They could move from one side of it to the other through the Mediterranean sea. Yes the bounderies were huge. Every place you mentioned is contained within the roman empire at the time of Christ.
I'll sum up your argument as this "you can't verify the source of where the 27 NT books come from because they're scatted from one end of the roman empire to the other, and they were supposed to come from Jerusalem".
Well that argument can't even support itself on the evidence you gave us. Read the book of Acts, it talks about the spread of the early Church, and Matt 28:19 where Jesus tells the disciples to spread the Church: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit".
BTW, it makes no difference WHERE most of them were written anyway. And it also makes no difference that Paul used scribes to write his epistles rather than writing them himself.