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Originally Posted by asaris
That's just not accurate as far as the NT is concerned, Cyn. Just about everybody agrees that the whole thing was finished by the end of the first century, and the earliest books were done by the 50s. The earliest manuscripts we have are, while I can't remember the exact dates, are far earlier and better (as far as provenance is concerned) that for just about any other contemporaneous works. So what we have is just about exactly what the oral tradition immediately following Christ's death was.
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I don't debate that for the NT it does explain why the 4 gospels differ so greatly on some stories, because they weren't written down as they happened, but as an after the fact from memory.
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