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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jesus' actions and sayings were generally witnessed by smallish crowds of illiterate people. That was Jesus' base - the illiterate and the dispossed. None of these illiterate people were writing anything down.

So the traditions were passed on orally -- which you want to dismiss. Instead, you are demanding first-hand accounts inscribed in rock or something. Good luck with that.

I'm guessing you also take a dim view of the Quran, which one guy claimed was dictated to him.

You know what? That's OK. You can take any view you like on these religious sources. And we can the views we like. What I don't understand is why some of you spend hours on a Mom's website spouting nonsense about John. [/quote]

I'm not the PP you're responding to but your post is interesting.  One of the PP's argued that the gospels ARE eye witness accounts.  How could that be if they (Jesus's base) weren't writing anything down?  I think most people of that era couldn't read or write.[/quote]

You can have an eye-witness who passes on what s/he's seen orally, no contradiction there. Somebody eventually writes it down, in the case of the gospels between 30-60 years after the event depending on the particular gospel. Then in the 300s there was a process to determine what people at the time thought was authentic. Then 1700 years after that, you have some uninformed people on DCUM arguing about John and whether this process is reliable or not.[/quote]

Thirty to sixty years after the event is "eye-witness evidence"?  Don't memories fade?  Also, why then would someone have to determine what was authentic after the fact? [/quote]

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