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To: Salvation

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51-125 The New Testament books are written”


The latter date on this should be doubted, as it most likely based on estimates by liberal scholars. The New Testament was assembled within the first century, almost all of it before the destruction of the Jewish temple, with only John’s works being written afterwards. Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Papias, between them, either quote or reference almost every book in the New Testament, save 2 Peter and a couple of others. (Though their silence on it does not mean it was not there, as they discussed or quoted from particular works as the need arised.) Ignatius, Polycarp and Papias lived within the 1st century and were said to have discourse with each other and the apostle John. Irenaeus was a disciple of Polycarp. All of this points to an early composition of the New Testament, exactly as the scripture itself testifies.


42 posted on 06/16/2013 9:15:21 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

You really do sound like a Catholic to me.....Are you sure you aren’t an inactive Catholic...just away for awhile?


44 posted on 06/16/2013 9:18:00 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

I think most of the new Testament was written by the year 100. I haven’t checked in the introductions to the books you mention, though.


45 posted on 06/16/2013 9:19:55 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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