“But textual analysis, dating of the materials, and other methods have established the dates of those writings as noticeably later.
And the earliest versions we have date from much later — probably the third century.
Frankly, your sources have an agenda.”
You have no idea what you’re talking about. Those dates are from even the liberal scholars. They date it as late as they can, but they can’t date it later because the New Testament was being quoted by sources we still have today well within the 1st century and into the early parts of the 2nd, by men who were already quite old. Ignatius, for example, died between 97-115AD. Clement is dated not long after the destruction of the Temple. To claim otherwise simply isn’t credible.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do not make it personal.
I didn’t think any intellectually competent person ever gave credence to the Documentary Hypothesis any longer (about the last century), but it appears they now want to refer to their incompetence as ‘textual analysis’.
The oldest actual texts we have date from at least a century or two after Jesus. We do not have originals. The earliest versions we have are not originals and almost certainly have been altered from what the authors originally wrote. And there are many revisions subsequent to those versions.
And the dates in which the books were originally written appear to be no earlier than at least 70-90 AD.