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To: MarkBsnr

Judging from your question I take it you don’t believe in apostolic (to put it clearly for you...the belief that books were either written by the apostles or those close to them) authorship for the NT?


430 posted on 03/13/2012 1:08:05 PM PDT by what's up
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To: what's up
I believe that many books were written and while there was a lot of Apostolic authorship, there was so much change over time (especially when most of them were written anonymously or did not have authorship included in the text) or pseudoepigraphical, that we have no clear picture over most of the books as canonized in the fourth century.

The Comma Johanneum and Chapter 16 of Mark's Gospel come to mind. You say Apostolic authorship. Where do you get that from?

435 posted on 03/13/2012 1:23:45 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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