RE: About other gods-question for theists
July 5, 2014 at 9:13 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2014 at 9:14 pm by Lek.)
You're right that Moses didn't write all of the Pentateuch. There were parts added by other authors. The truth is that you are all making assumptions for which you have no proof. You're not following the scientific method at all. Someone has decided that the early christian church was not aware of who wrote the books of the new testament, although they have no way of knowing that. It's all conjecture on the part of those who determined that to be the case. Why couldn't the church know who wrote those books? Even if they were written a generation or two after Christ died, that's not a long time to pass down knowledge of authorship. If my father or grandfather wrote a book as important as that I'm sure I would know. As for the omitted gospels, the church decided which books would be contained in the new testament according to whether they supported the doctrine held by the christian church and who authored them. Doctrine, at first, was passed along orally.