(October 17, 2013 at 11:19 am)John V Wrote: The early camp thinks Luke was written ~60-65, and the late camp ~80-90. Plenty of people would have spotted a false claim of less than a century prior.
The "early camp" is silly. Real scholars put the date of Mark around 70 CE, as determined by its references in chapter 13. But this is beside my point. I said NT, not individual Gospels.
You do understand the early Christians had no NT, right?
Do you imagine they got together in their churches and had Holy Bibles printed and readily accessed and read by the entire congregation? You think they had Bible study sessions? You wonder if their children went to Sunday school to read all four Gospels?
In reality, there were many different Christian factions and each had their own Gospel. The Ebionites used Matthew. The Marcionites used Luke. It wasn't until Nicaea that all these differences were finally resolved, Church cannon was established and the books were reviewed to see which would go into the final compilation and in what order.
There was no NT among early Christians.
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