The gospels aren’t first-hand accounts

The gospels aren’t first-hand accounts #gospel #bible #bibleverse #biblestudy #matthew #mark #luke #john #author #evangelicalchurchproblems #fundamentalist #deconstruction #deconstructiontiktok #belief #beliefs

[@davidm5707]

Thanks for the shout-out to Dan McClellan, an excellent biblical scholar.
However, has it occurred to you that a lot of people could have called BS and it either wasn't written down, or the writings were destroyed?
Remember, there was no Internet, so people might just have accepted what they were told as something they hadn't heard before.

[@jordanupdegrove7879]

1. There are no first-person claims in the gospels.
- Yes you're right. They are not letters like Paul wrote. They are historical accounts of Jesus and his ministry. It was common for historians of that time to write entirely in the third person. Josephus did this and others at the time. This does not mean they are not first-hand accounts.
2. The Gospels were not called “Matthew Mark Luke and John until 200AD
-more accurately, titles were not assigned to the gospels when scribes copied the documents until this time. There is good reason to believe that church fathers ascribed authorship to these four before that. There is a lengthier debate on the issue of authorship but these 4 names were not simply picked out of a hat in 200AD and ascribed to the gospels. There remain plenty of good reasons to ascribe authorship to the traditional authors despite “scholarly consensus”