You know . This is a gr8 post. Bartholomew was a disciple He was an eye witness. The rest of the Bible is hearsay (except maybe John) The books were hand me down storied from 50 to 90 years after Christ rose from the dead by followers that could write in Hebrew or Greek and proved He was the atonement for all our sins,past, present. and future , if only we believe he was the Son of God ( not of the loins of David) . Thank you God. We are all such sinners
“You know . This is a gr8 post. Bartholomew was a disciple He was an eye witness. The rest of the Bible is hearsay (except maybe John) The books were hand me down storied from 50 to 90 years after Christ rose from the dead”
Even liberal scholars date Paul’s works, as an example, quite early, not even “50 years later,” but before the destruction of the Jewish temple in 70AD. They date some of the Gospels later, only because they are prejudiced to prophecy, since Christ predicted the fall of Jerusalem, so they assume it must be written afterwards (though the Old Testament predicts the fall of Jerusalem and of the Temple after the coming of Christ too, yet is not so dated by anyone wit ha brain). Ignatius, Clement, Papias, Polycarp, and Irenaeus, all writers ranging from the 1st century up into the 2nd century, either quote from the vast majority of New Testament, or directly reference them, their names, and who wrote them. If what you say is true, then Ignatius, for example, who died sometime between 97AD and 115AD as an old man, was deceived by works that had only been written in his own day.