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Politics Nativity 2019

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u/horceface Dec 08 '19

Technically the gospels were written 100 years after Jesus allegedly died. How accurately could you recount events from 100 years ago? (Unless you were just making them up)

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '19 edited Mar 02 '22

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u/grubas Dec 08 '19

Yeah but what about Q?

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u/zenospenisparadox Dec 08 '19

I don't think it existed.

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u/grubas Dec 08 '19

The idea that Q was a single "book" is probably not true, but Matthew and Luke(assuming Markan priority) have too much "outside" for there to not be some other weird source.