(August 19, 2014 at 2:47 pm)revivin Wrote:(August 19, 2014 at 2:42 pm)Tobie Wrote: Are you saying the books of the NT are the documents that were written closest to the time of Jesus? Most estimates put the earliest written NT book at around 50CE, so by your logic there are no historical documents written between 20BCE and 50CE.
Why would you think the NT was written a decade or two later?
And yes, we have no sources as close to their events as we do for the NT events.
Dude..take 10 minutes on Google to look up the history of the Bible..
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson