guno
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You know, the biggest problem I find with the Birth of Christ story is
Who is telling us this story?
It can't be first hand accounting of the Disciples--none of them meet Jesus until he is like 30.
So that seems to leave Mary or Joseph. Well, we can count Joseph out because he seems to disappear from the story when Jesus comes of age.
So is the accounting of the Virgin Birth the story of Mary? Is there a Gospel of Mary out there that we don't know about?
Come to think about it, almost the first third of the book of Matthew could not be first hand accounting of the disciples either, because it reference them and how he met/chose them after some part of that Gospel has been written.
Pretty weird stuff, huh? We do not know who were the witness for these events. But we can deduce easily that it was not the Disciples.
Nearly half of the New Testament is a forgery, according to a provocative new book that charges the Apostle Paul authored only a fraction of the letters attributed to him and the Apostle Peter wrote nothing.
Written by Bart Ehrman, a former evangelical Christian and now agnostic professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the book claims to unveil "one of the most unsettling ironies of the early Christian tradition": the use of deception to promote the truth.
"The Bible not only contains untruths of accidental mistakes. It also contains what almost anyone today would call lies," Ehrman writes in "Forged: Writing in the Name of God — Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are."
Forgeries in the Bible s New Testament Discovery News