The authors of the bible were anonymous!

March 1, 2012

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Most scholars agree that the bible characters of jesus and his Aramaic speaking disciples/apostles, would have been mostly illiterate and couldn't have written the new testament bible, because it was written completely in Greek and their life expectancies would have made it impossible

http://exposingreligionblog.tumblr.com/post/28593083606

2 New Testament authors, even admit to not being eyewitnesses:

Luke 1:1-4 New International Version (NIV)

1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,

2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

3 With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

4 so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

John 21:24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.

“A further reality is that all the Gospels were written anonymously, and none of the writers claims to be an eyewitness. Names are attached to the titles of the Gospels ("the Gospel according to Matthew”), but these titles are later additions to the Gospels, provided by editors and scribes to inform readers who the editors thought were the authorities behind the different versions. That the titles are not original to the Gospels themselves should be clear upon some simple reflection. Whoever wrote Matthew did not call it “The Gospel according to Matthew.” The persons who gave it that title are telling you who, in their opinion, wrote it. Authors never title their books “according to." ~Bart D. Ehrman (Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don’t Know About Them)

Moreover, Matthew’s Gospel is written completely in the third person, about what "they” — Jesus and the disciples — were doing, never about what “we” — Jesus and the rest of us — were doing. Even when this Gospel narrates the event of Matthew being called to become a disciple, it talks about “him,” not about “me.” Read the account for yourself (Matthew 9:9). There’s not a thing in it that would make you suspect the author is talking about himself.“ ~Bart D. Ehrman (Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don’t Know About Them)

“[S]ome books, such as the Gospels, … had been written anonymously, only later to be ascribed to certain authors who probably did not write them (apostles and friends of the apostles).” ~Bart Ehrman, Jesus, Interrupted (2011), pp. 101-02.

"The authors of these books never speak in the first person (the First Gospel never says, "One day, Jesus and I want to Jerusalem …”). They never claim to be personally connected with any of the events they narrate or the persons about whom they tell their stories. The books are thoroughly, ineluctably, and invariably anonymous.“ ~Bart D. Ehrman

Forged - Writing in the Name of God – Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are - by Bart D. Ehrman

http://www.nobeliefs.com/Ehrman.htm

"The gospels are so anonymous that their titles, all second-century guesses, are all four wrong.”

~Randel McCraw Helms (Who Wrote the Gospels?)

“All four gospels are anonymous texts. The familiar attributions of the Gospels to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John come from the mid-second century and later and we have no good historical reason to accept these attributions.”

~Steve Mason, professor of classics,history and religious studies at York University in Toronto (Bible Review, Feb. 2000,p. 36)

Most scholars have come to acknowledge, was done not by the Apostles but by their anonymous followers (or their followers’ followers). Each presented a somewhat different picture of Jesus’ life. The earliest appeared to have been written some 40 years after his Crucifixion.

~David Van Biema,”The Gospel Truth?” (Time,April 8,1996)

Reality of the bible’s authors

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4xOp6_quIU

Uncertain Authorship - Rejection of Pascal’s Wager: The Bible: A Collection of Myths and Legends

http://www.rejectionofpascalswager.net/bibleanalysis.html#author

Authorship of the New Testament

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Authorship_of_the_New_Testament

D.M. Murdock/Acharya S: Are the New Testament Gospels History? Where’s the Proof?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVxipYeWerc&feature=share

Ebon Musings: The Origins of Orthodoxy

http://www.ebonmusings.org/atheism/originsoforthodoxy.html

The Formation of the New Testament Canon

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/NTcanon.html

In a debate with a muslim, Christian Apologist Dr. James White admits that the Authors of the Bible are UNKNOWN!! (This happens @ 3:30)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzT-On05Dz0

Half of New Testament forged, Bible scholar says

(CNN) - A frail man sits in chains inside a dank, cold prison cell. He has escaped death before but now realizes that his execution is drawing near.

“I am already being poured out like a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come,” the man –the Apostle Paul - says in the Bible’s 2 Timothy. “I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.”

The passage is one of the most dramatic scenes in the New Testament. Paul, the most prolific New Testament author, is saying goodbye from a Roman prison cell before being beheaded. His goodbye veers from loneliness to defiance and, finally, to joy.

“There’s one just one problem - Paul didn’t write those words. In fact, virtually half the New Testament was written by impostors taking on the names of apostles like Paul.” ~Bart D. Ehrman, a renowned biblical scholar, who makes the charges in his new book “Forged.”

“There were a lot of people in the ancient world who thought that lying could serve a greater good,” says Ehrman, an expert on ancient biblical manuscripts.In “Forged,” Ehrman claims that:

* At least 11 of the 27 New Testament books are forgeries.

* The New Testament books attributed to Jesus’ disciples could not have been written by them because they were illiterate.

* Many of the New Testament’s forgeries were manufactured by early Christian leaders trying to settle theological feuds.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/13/half-of-new-testament-forged-bible-scholar-says/

Who Wrote The Bible and Why It Matters

Apart from the most rabid fundamentalists among us, nearly everyone admits that the Bible might contain errors – a faulty creation story here, a historical mistake there, a contradiction or two in some other place. But is it possible that the problem is worse than that – that the Bible actually contains lies?

Most people wouldn’t put it that way, since the Bible is, after all, sacred Scripture for millions on our planet. But good Christian scholars of the Bible, including the top Protestant and Catholic scholars of America, will tell you that the Bible is full of lies, even if they refuse to use the term. And here is the truth: Many of the books of the New Testament were written by people who lied about their identity, claiming to be a famous apostle – Peter, Paul or James – knowing full well they were someone else. In modern parlance, that is a lie, and a book written by someone who lies about his identity is a forgery.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bart-d-ehrman/the-bible-telling-lies-to_b_840301.html

Whywontgodhealamputees.com On the bible - Chapters 12-17

Chapter 12 - Who wrote the Bible?

http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god12.htm

Chapter 13 - Why does God love slavery?

http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god13.htm

Chapter 14 - Why does God love animal sacrifice?

http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god14.htm

Chapter 15 - Why is God so sexist?

http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god15.htm

Chapter 16 - Why does God massacre millions of children?

http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/god16.htm