(July 31, 2014 at 9:36 am)SteveII Wrote: No one suggested an eyewitness wrote the gospels. That does not prove they did not get the accounts from eyewitnesses and those that might have written things down in the meantime.
Actually, I've talked to numerous Christians who assert that two or three of the gospel authors witnessed the events first hand. I have no idea how you make the claim that "no one" has suggested this.
And, yes, this in and of itself doesn't preclude that they weren't accounts of eyewitness testimony, but it doesn't mean they were, either. You have to assume in either case, and at the end of the day, we're talking about potential eyewitness testimony of otherwise unsubstantiated miracles, often said to be witnessed "by multitudes", yet strangely not recorded elsewhere.
