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Originally Posted by awareness
The problem is that we're given so little information from the gospels. So we fill in the gaps with guesses; like James and John were cousins of Jesus. Where's that in the gospels?
And like, "Matthew was a wealthy tax collector."
The problem with this verse is if Matthew wrote it why did he write it in the third person? Why didn't he write something like this:
And as Jesus passed forth from thence, he saw [me], Matthew, sitting at the receipt of custom: and he saith unto [me], Follow me. And [I] arose, and followed him.
Maybe they didn't. Maybe Matthew and Mark are compilations, like Luke admits his is, in his opening verses.
Truth is we can't know that may facts from back then. No one signed the gospels so we don't know who wrote them. And we just have to guess at the dates they we written.
But Witness Lee's claim to an early date for the gospels wasn't sold as a guess. The MOTA said it so it had to be true.
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The mothers of Jesus, James, and John were sisters. You have to study the accounts.
Matthew had a career, a big house, threw a huge party, and invited many people to see Jesus. Obviously he had some measure of success, and was not a teenager.
No, Lee made the claim because all the old scholars made that claim for the early date of Matthew.
It is common for writers to write in the third person, why some people even talk that way today. Where have you been?
We dont need a signatures to know who wrote the four gospels. We know them already. Even if we had fingerprint authorization on his I-phone, guys like you would still claim it to be bogus.