(October 31, 2012 at 9:29 am)Daniel Wrote: 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".
My point is not that they couldn't move from one place to the other....
The point was that whatever story was propagated along those vast reaches couldn't be verified by the local population. So those "leading churches" had unverified accounts which are today claimed to be "true, because the eye witnesses wouldn't allow those accounts to be false".
Curiously, Jerusalem is not counted as one of the "leading churches"... Maybe they were too "orthodox"...