Reading Time: 13 minutes Who is the Author? Scholarly opinion The scholarly consensus is that Paul wrote the Epistle to the Romans. Even a sceptical scholar like Bart Ehrman states: “Finally, there are seven letters that virtually all scholars agree were written by Paul himself: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, Read more…
Reading Time: 12 minutes Who is the Author? With Matthew you could argue financial features point toward him being the author, with Mark you can see the identity of Peter, with John you can also identify with how he uses the name John to figure out the author’s name also. But with Luke, it Read more…
Reading Time: 16 minutes Who is the Author? Internal evidence: B.F. Wescott B.F. Wescott in the 19th century makes a case that John the Apostle was actively involved in the writings of his Gospel on the life of Christ. Wescott puts foward a 5 step argument. It is an argument that has been very Read more…
Reading Time: 20 minutes Who is the Author? There are three main sources to establish authorship, the first of which is the church fathers. These are basically the Christians who recorded testimony and history of what was passed onto them from around the Roman world. Second was heretics who chose to manipulate what was Read more…
Reading Time: 21 minutes Who is the Author? All the internal and external evidence points to the author of the Gospel being Mark himself with no competitive tradition. We have no early Heretics or critics of Christianity claiming he wasn’t the author. The church fathers is where we can establish the external evidence for Read more…
Reading Time: 16 minutes Who is the Author? All the internal and external evidence points to Matthew being the author of the first gospel with no other tradition. We have no early Heretics or critics of Christianity claiming he wasn’t the author, half the time they just avoid him altogether or screwing the meaning Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes References to a collective four gospels Justin Martyr Tatian & the Diatessaron Celcus Codex Vaticanus Codex Sinaiticus Summary What are the earliest sources treating the four gospels as a set? Are there such examples? And from whom and where? What form do they take? And why is that significant? Justin Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Much has been made of the anonymity of the Gospels. Some sceptics have gone as far to say that we can’t trust the Gospel documents because their names aren’t mentioned internally! Well firstly, the authorship of the gospels is well attested by the church fathers early on, as is the Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The most held to viewpoint on which gospel came first is one that begins with Mark as the oldest source. Scholars say it was written likely no later 60’s some would say late 50’s, however, Non-christian scholar James Crossley would put it in the 40’s as would atheist Maurice Casey. Read more…
Reading Time: 19 minutes Why not John? John is not “excluded” as if someone tossed it out or prevented it from being a member. It simply is not “synoptic” (i.e. defined as: “same events ‘seen’ at the same time”) like with the other three. What we do know and we’ll get into in the Read more…