Let’s not over look the ‘historical’ nature of the four gospel writers. I doubt that they thought of themselves as ‘founders of a new religion’. It is more likely they wrote as Luke told Theophilus, to make a record of events, put another way, they wrote for the Historical record.
“Let’s not over look the ‘historical’ nature of the four gospel writers. I doubt that they thought of themselves as ‘founders of a new religion’. It is more likely they wrote as Luke told Theophilus, to make a record of events, put another way, they wrote for the Historical record.”
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Correct - and that is even more significant when you condider the fact the only copies of Plato’s work were written over 1000 years removed from his time and that only 7 manuscripts have been found.
So far, there are about 5600 New Testaments manuscripts - all of which could have been written during Jesus’ own lifetime if he had lived to a ripe old age, as did His close disciple John.