(January 12, 2015 at 6:11 am)Godschild Wrote: Writings attributed to the apostles circulated amongst the earliest Christian communities. The Pauline epistles were circulating in collected forms by the end of the 1st century AD. Justin Martyr, in the early 2nd century, mentions the "memoirs of the Apostles," which Christians (Greek: Χριστιανός) called "gospels," and which were considered to be authoritatively equal to the Old Testament.[16]
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As far as I can tell, the OP does not dispute the info from the Wiki. It claims that the specific apostles (and their works?) to which the four Biblical gospels are attributed may not have been known to the early Christian communities. Or at the least, that they were fairly obscure and did not stand out from the rest.
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