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Celsus admitted there were discrepancies in the Gospels which is evidence that it was not the so-called heretics who altered the Gospels but Christian writers themselves. Against Celsus 2.32 And now, in finding fault with our Lord's genealogy, there are certain points which occasion some difficulty ...

My main focus was on "... certain of the Christian believers ... have corrupted the Gospel from its original integrity, to a threefold, and fourfold, and many-fold degree, and have remodelled it , so that they might be able to answer objections . I think that is a pretty good support for the p...

The story of Herod the tetrach divorcing the daughter of Aretas to marry Herodias and the execution of John the Baptist is found in the works of Josephus. It is extremely important to understand that all the NT Gospels were composed at least after the writings of Josephus [at least after c 94 CE] s...

The story of Herod the tetrach divorcing the daughter of Aretas to marry Herodias and the execution of John the Baptist is found in the works of Josephus. It is extremely important to understand that all the NT Gospels were composed at least after the writings of Josephus [at least after c 94 CE] si...

To Bernard Muller My post is a response to rgprice in this very thread. ....Then Luke came along, he had probably read Matthew and got the idea of a counter Gospel from him, and he also wanted to make an anti-Marcionite work, comprised of both a counter Gospel and a counter to Marcion's Apostolikon,...

There was no "Apostolikon" at all by Marcion--none whatsoever. The very writings called "Against Marcion" in 5 books attributed to Tertullian do not claim anywhere that Marcion wrote an "Apostolikon". See "Against Marcion" http://www.tertullian.org/articles/ev...

It appears as if all of the Gospels are reacting to suppress an alternative and competing mode of veneration. I.E., the worship of John. The thrust is that John must be diminished. The ultimate expression of this is John 3:30. The Mandaeans seem to be the last remaining remnant of those who venerat...

In the so-called Pauline Epistles the writer boasts and guarantees that he did not get his Gospel from man, neither was taught by man but from revelations from the resurrected Jesus. Galatians 1:11 But I certify you [/b], brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. 12 For I ...

The Preaching of Peter mentions a character called Paul which means it is most likely a forgery and written no earlier than c 180 CE. Based on my research writings which mention Paul and the supposed Epistles are usually forgeries and have very little or no historical value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-source_hypothesis#:~:text=The%20two%2Dsource%20hypothesis%20proposes,of%20Jesus%20known%20as%20Q. The "Two-source Hypothesis" proposes that the Gospels of Matthew and Luke were written independently, each using Mark and a second hypothetical document call...