The God of Convenience

[Thumpalumpacus]

But if Jesus was such a big deal, why aren't there Gospels written during his life? You'd think a dude walking around on water, changing water into wine, magically healing people and coming back from the freaking dead would be events that would attract a lot more attention. How about letters to Caesar reading, "Holy, shit, dude, you gotta hear this. . ." ?

You know?

I mean, I know there was no Twitter or Facebook, but if a prophet was really pulling that sort of thing, word would get around, and someone would make a contemporaneous document.

As it is, we get things from 20 or 30 years later. The principals are dead, or hundreds if not thousands of miles away and cannot say what really happened.