(July 8, 2015 at 5:34 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Jenny-
Mark was not written 70 years later. If that were the case, it would have been after the turn of the century.
No one accepts that date. You shouldn't either. Mark was written very early as I have shown in another thread.
Maybe one reason why you are having a hard time finally coming to a faith position is that you are working with bad data.
Garbage in, garbage out.
Mark was written about the year 70, that's about 40 years after Jesus was crucified. http://www.bc.edu/schools/stm/c21online/...spels.html To put that into perspective, that's 20 years after Paul wrote his letters. And more to the point, way too late to be a first hand account, certainly way to late to depend upon for the details. Not to mention that the book reads like what it is, a theological tale, not a historically accurate one.
Mathew and Luke really were written in the 80 and 90s. That is 60 to 70 years after the crucifixion and one of your minimal "facts" depends upon them. That is that the disciples believed that they had seen Jesus resurrected. Mark won't get you there because he ends with the empty tomb.
John may have been written as late as 110. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel
So take the gospels as gospel and what you have is garbage in garbage out.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
