[attagirl]

In reference to your post #74:
Actually, now some are saying that the books were written in the order in which they appear (1. Matt....4. John). You must be tuning in to the Jesus Seminar to talk about "reliability" and "currying favor."

[attagirl]

I should've explained. John was supposed to have been written alomst 100 yrs. after Jesus' death. That is still claimed by these scholars--it's just that the other books predated John.

[Skywalk]

Not channeling Jesus Seminar at all, but scholarship that far pre-dates that meeting.

No more than someone attempting to determine the veracity of Buddha's REAL life or Kung Fu Tzu's early life or Lao Tzu's life, etc. And if I'm not mistaken Quetzalcoatl was a real life person, but Toltec not Aztec. That didn't stop him from becoming a god.