The Gospel of Matthew was written prior to the destruction of the temple in 70 AD, some scholars have proposed a date as early as AD 50.
The Gospel of Luke was written, most likely date is AD 60 or 61, as there is no mention of James Martyrdom in AD 62.
The Gospel of Mark was written between AD 50 and AD 70, before the destruction of the temple.
The Gospel of John was written between AD 80 to AD 90.
These dates are from The MacArthur Study Bible discussions.
And I disagree with the statement people did not live past 45, no basis for such a statement.
What age did Abraham live to?
175 is what The Bible says.
Do we believe that to be true?
A problem becomes when you start disbelieving one statement, where do you stop?
Another problem, why believe one statement and disbelieve another?
Do we have faith in the Word or do we not?
What I do not believe has been discussed in this thread is the biggest reason Christians have faith, we all have our own testimonies of what God has done in our lives. We see God working in our lives, He performs miracles in our lives, I think about that question preachers ask sometimes, Do you know that you know that you know? We know what they speak about, if we really believe in Jesus and know Him, we know what they speak of with that question.
I say miracles. What do I mean? After my daughter was born, I tried to have another child for almost 10 years, and then I had twins. God is responsible for that, and I saw in that 10 years my faith grow stronger and deeper and I changed. Faithfulness was the song I was singing, singing out of God's Faithfulness, as He rewarded me for my own faithfulness in Him. But there are so many other miracles, struggling with issues like fear and crying and praying through it until one day it is just lifted and it is gone. We believe because we see Him working in our lives and feel His presence with us always. And we are never alone and we have nothing to fear, not even death, because we go to a better place.
gospels written at least 50 years after jesus death. Most males did not live past 45 yr.
I have thought about that too.. I sometimes think the apostles were young men.. barely out of their teens.