Jesus, the Gospel and Abraham Lincoln

Modern Jesus by Doug X with Craiyon

I was listening to a debate between Bart Ehrman and Mike Likona regarding the evidence for the Resurrection in the Gospels and I had some thoughts.

The problem for the pursuit of the Historical Jesus is that there weren’t newspapers and video cameras in 30 BCE. The second problem is that there weren’t books or papyrus scrolls written about Jesus until approximately 35 years after his dead (Mark) and then ten or fifteen years later (Matthew and Luke) and then around 90 C.E. we have the Gospel of John.

And while these gospels report the many sayings of Jesus, a historian reading wonders how many of these sayings were said by the historical Jesus, and how many merely attributed to him.

Since I wasn’t there (and you weren’t there unless you’re a time traveller, and even if you are a time traveller there is an argument you merely went to an alternate quantum universe and not this one, or you went to this one and are now reading this in a different quantum universe written by Doug Y or somesuch…but I digress.