RE: What were Jesus and early Christians like?
March 11, 2015 at 5:45 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2015 at 5:54 pm by watchamadoodle.)
(March 11, 2015 at 5:05 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: "Matthew" was supposedly an eye-witness since he was supposedly a traveling companion of Jesus and yet he seems to rely heavily on "Mark", even correcting Mark where he got elements of Jewish theology wrong. Then Matthew destroys whatever credibility he might have as an eye-witness by lying his ass off about what the OT says.Do these errors in Jewish theology and interpretation of the OT occur in the pieces of Matthew that are unique to Matthew?
Maybe Matthew and Luke evolved their unique material after composition, and originally Luke was simply a version of Matthew written for Gentiles. Maybe the subset of Matthew common to Luke was originally written in Aramaic and translated to Greek to become Luke. Later the Aramaic Matthew was translated to Greek too. Then the two gospels evolved the nativity and post resurrection stories independently. By that time Matthew was no longer a Jewish gospel, so the mistakes that you mentioned crept in.
Also, scholars believe there was a Gospel of the Nazarenes that might fit this theory. Nazarenes may have descended from the Jerusalem church, so that would fit too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_the_Nazarenes
