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Re: Religion
<< there is no contemporary written witness of the existence of Jesus at all. The Gospels of the Bible are not eyewitness accounts; biblical scholars believe they were written almost 100 years after the events they claim to record (approximate dates Matthew 70 to 100 AD, Mark 68-73 AD, Luke 80-100AD, and John 90-110AD)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospels.>>
Actually, what better documentation is there besides the letters from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John? Paul left many more letters and he thought these men existed. Since he interacted with them, it seems that he would know. The "good news" was precious from the beginning. Unlike today, one couldn't copy it on a machine or forward it in email ... Many copies were scribed from the original correspondences, so the date of one doesn't disprove it's legitimacy.
<< The Gospels also contradict each other about the events in Jesus' life, and have gone through several 'revisions' during early ecuminical conferences, not to mention a large number of translational errors between the Greek, Latin, and English versions. The Gospel of Mark doesn't even mention the Resurrection in its original Greek version. >>
The gospels don't at all contradict each other. Your premise is sort of akin to saying that a car accident didn't happen because four witnesses gave their account of it from four perspectives.
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