The books of the New Testament were written by people with an excellent grasp of Koine Greek, so it is very likely that they spoke Greek in their daily lives as a first language. References made to the Old Testament are consistently to the Greek Septuagint (LXX), not to the Hebrew scriptures, providing good evidence that the authors were familiar with the Greek source rather than the Hebrew source.
The gospel authors did not claim to have been inspired by God,
None of the New Testament authors knew Jesus. None of the New Testament authors knew anyone who had known Jesus and who could help him write about Jesus.
The four New Testament gospels are attributed to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but were originally anonymous until attributed to them by he Church Fathers later in the second century.
The general epistles are variously attributed to James, Peter, John and Jude, but most scholars dispute at least some of these attributions.
The authors of Matthew and Luke certainly elaborated on what they received from Mark’s Gospel as well as adding further material of doubtful origin. On the one hand, they probably believed in the substance of Mark’s Gospel, but were not averse to adding material they knew not to be literally true.
I find it hard to believe that the author of John actually believed that his sources were entirely factual or that he intended to write a gospel that was a true narrative of Jesus.
The most common reason people doubt the historical accuracy of stories like the creation and flood in the Bible, is that we now know that these stories do not describe what really happened. We can also see parallels between the biblical myths and earlier
Mesopotamian myths that could have inspired those in the Bible.
We know that the apostle Paul wrote the epistles now known as Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Philemon, Galatians, Philippians and 1 Thessalonians. Other epistles attributed to him but rejected by most New Testament scholars as inauthentic are: 2 Thessalonians, Ephesians, Colossians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and Titus. Also at one stage, Hebrews was attributed to Paul but he was so clearly not the author that this attribution is rarely discussed.
The apostle Paul seems to have genuinely believed in Jesus, to the extent that he sincerely believed that Jesus would return in his own lifetime. I suppose the fact that the parousia did not come true means that he was, to at least some extent, deluded.
It is unlikely that Paul did have that experience on the road to Damascus, as portrayed no less than three times in Acts of the Apostles
By and large, we do not know who wrote the New Testament, but we do know that the books that now form the New Testament were all written by the middle of the second century.
Have you read quran? If not please read it. Read it thoroughly, with concentration to understand. Try to analyze the varses one by one.
The book has stood the test of time. It was revealed 1400 years ago. Still every part,word, alphabet of the Quran has been maintained in its true form as it was revealed. Even today no two quran in any corner in the world would differ a single word. Historic copies of the quran would be found the same.
So primarily, the book was not changed or modified never in the past decades no matter what and significantly because it did not need to be changed.
Everything in the quran was applicable 1400 years ago and is still applicable today without any modification which is a miracle in itself.
Secondly, if anyone would like to question the quran, he/she has the freedom to prove one of its statements to be false. A lot of geographical, scientific, astronomical and historic statements...... etc have been made in the quran.
All they have to do is prove otherwise.
However, history is proof that the best of scientists, historians, doctors and philisophers could not prove a single statement false.
"لم يتوقّع أبداً أن القرآن يَكشِف هذه الحقيقة المُذهِلة! الصدمة كانت أمام عينيه!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4dJynQRTowWhat Western scholarship is saying about the Qur'an with Dr Hythem Sidky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCECRhQHW0 مسيحي يقول إنه مات ورأى الله! هاشم في مواجهة نارية من أغرب ما قد ترى!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IntK3GbhUZc مسيحي يقع في فخ السؤال القاتل… والمسلم ينسف عقيدته في ثوانٍ!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOKLfdOILvwمعجزات القرءان الكريم أذهلت العالم وأخطاء كتاب النصارى
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