A few days ago I had dinner with a couple of my acquaintances. One was a young girl in her mid-20s with strong anti-religious sentiments. Usually, I don’t like to talk about heavy topics such as religion and Church Read more

As I mentioned earlier, the traditional Church’s view is that the authors of the New Testament Gospels are Mark (the interpreter of St. Peter), Luke (the companion of St. Paul), and two apostles: Matthew the tax collector, and John Read more

In the last post, I talked about the internal evidence for the anonymity of the Gospels. I’ve shown that the internal evidence points towards the conclusion that the New Testament Gospels were written as anonymous documents – without Read more

In the previous post, I talked about the oral traditions passed on for decades before they were written down. Our first biography of Jesus was written c. 70 CE (Mark), our last c. 90-100 CE (John). Before that, Read more