Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Case in point for Early Date of Gospels

Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;...
Luke 1:1,2

"Recent scholarship has, in fact, shown that the Gospel accounts
were penned much closer to the time of Jesus’ death than previously thought, most certainly by eyewitnesses in the case of three out of four.
Strong evidence points to a completion of the entire text of the New Testament before the year 100 AD.
---The first three Gospels, for example, prophesied the fall of the temple of Jerusalem, which occurred in 70 AD.
---The fulfillment of the prophecy is never mentioned, however, which suggests that it had not happened as of the writing of the text."
Breitbart