Hmm. The usual hostility. Oh well, that's you. If you go to Wikipedia, Bible Study or other sites, you can get some pretty basic knowledge on this. Most theologians agree that Mark wasn't written until around 70 years after the Crucifiction - certainly beyond the life expectancy of the time. I used 40 years because that is considered the minimum. Additionally, authors often signed the names of other people who were credited with originating something that had been passed verbally via the traditional Hebrew Tradition.
But you don't want to know this. It's not like you have an open mind or ever acknowledge the point of anyone else. As stated before, you have that compulsion thing about winning arguments with anonymous strangers on the net.
If you were not such a dweeb you would not think I was hostile.
Wikipedia dates Mark to no later than than early 70 CE.
New Testament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to this prominent skeptics site the entire New Testament was finished withing 60 years of Jesus.s crucifixion, and Mark was written within 30 years of it.
Chronological Order
Paul actually wrote the bulk of his epistles before Jerusalem was sacked by Rome. He wrote about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and preached in the very city it occurred in. He actually wrote down the entire Gospel story before any of the surviving Gospels were committed to parchment. I would think that someone would have pointed out it never happened if he was lying, but no one did.
Can you explain that?
You might be able to confuse someone who relies on idiots to make decisions, but I actually researched the issue, and love to use sites that actually disagree with me about the Bible being inspired and true to shoot down jerks like you who think they can scare me by appealing to authority.
By the way there was a strong oral tradition in existence. Even if nothing was committed to parchment for decades after the crucifixion, that does not prove the Gospel itself was not written by eyewitnesses.
So here you go:
Oh my! You're right! Mark was written by someone who was right there when Jesus walked! Wow! You're just, just so SO brilliant!
All better now?
Much better, thank you. I enjoy virtually stomping idiots who do not know enough to know when to shut the fuck up.
Lol more of the usual hostility. What ARE you so angry about there little man? Oh well, not my concern.
So you go from asserting definitively that Mark was written by an eyewitnesses to "well it MAY have been written as uh soon, as 30 years after the crucifction... Then you bring up the uh Strong Oral tradition (which WHO brought up? ;-)
And then you claim you have stomped anyone? LOL!
Let's satisfy that insecurity that is so apparent in your posts. As before:
Of course you are absolutely right that you were wrong but uh now you're definitely uh right!
I didn't sense any hostility in Quantums comment's. But i think i can feel the fear in your response! Not one thing you said proved anything he said was wrong.....