VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Steve|DATE|1360319671|CONTENT|Excellent, Peter. Made me chuckle.

He did say that skollaz debate which parts of religious texts are originally the words of god and which are later additions, but in the case of the Gospels at least we know the answer - it&#039;s all later, 40 years or more later. There’s still plenty of discussion, but nobody doubts the general idea – that none of the Gospels are contemporary to the events they describe. The majority view is that Mark came first (c.70), Matthew and Luke are copied from it, John was written separately and a bit later (c.90), and nobody knows who wrote any of them.

Interestingly, my wife went to a local church course on the gospels, at which none of this was mentioned. They even persisted with the line that the Synoptic Gospels&#039; similarity in text is evidence of their correctness, as opposed to evidence of plagiarism. The truth will set you free, apparently, which might be what they were worried about.|IP-ADDRESS|10.0.119.228, 217.36.222.79, 10.37.37.203|MODERATIONFLAG|