RE: What if the Romans hadn't killed Jesus?
April 27, 2014 at 4:58 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2014 at 5:04 pm by Lek.)
(April 27, 2014 at 11:32 am)Stimbo Wrote:(April 26, 2014 at 8:30 pm)Lek Wrote: And saying that Matthew and Luke were written after 135 AD is quite a stretch. Christianity started getting going shortly after Jesus' death, with the apostles converting thousands in a day.
Source?
The Book of Acts, which you will immediately dismiss, although that doesn't make it any less valid, states that about 3,000 were added to their number on Pentecost and that the church continued to grow in large numbers. Also the secular website below shows most opinions of the dates of composition of the gospels at no later than 100 AD, but possibly as early as soon after Jesus' death. Although I will add, that some think it was as late as the end of the second century. In other words, we don't really know for sure when they were written, which points out that you (and Minimalist) have no grounds for stating with surety that the gospels or any other books of the bible were written later that the first century. http://www.stellarhousepublishing.com/gospel-dates.html
