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To: Red Badger
"The earliest known copies of The Gospels are not from the 1st and 2nd centuries."

Don't bet on it! You have been badly misinformed: LINK

63 posted on 09/18/2012 12:42:32 PM PDT by drpix
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To: drpix
From your link: Estimates for the dates when the canonical gospel accounts were written vary significantly; and the evidence for any of the dates is scanty. Because the earliest surviving complete copies of the gospels date to the 4th century and because only fragments and quotations exist before that,
72 posted on 09/18/2012 1:27:55 PM PDT by Red Badger (Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
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