(May 16, 2015 at 7:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(May 16, 2015 at 7:52 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: Hey, it may well have been the figment of some first century asshole's imagination!
We have evidence of this shit in the 2d century....although it takes until much later for some church fuck to attach the names to it. But in the first century? Nada. A gap so embarrassing that they tried to forge some which is a dead giveaway about the total bullshittery of jesusism.
The dates I have seen as estimates for when they were written would suggest first century imagination at work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel#Dating
What is the source of your dating estimation?
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.