gMatthew-written by an anonymous non-eyewitness to Jesus' ministry

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I give two excerpts from wikipedia:
  1. Secular scholarship generally agrees it was written by an anonymous non-eyewitness to Jesus’ ministry. The author apparently used the Gospel of Mark as one source and the hypothetical Q document as another, possibly writing in Antioch, c 80-85
  2. Beginning in the 18th century, however, scholars have increasingly questioned that traditional view, and today the majority agree Matthew did not write the Gospel which bears his name.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew
How would you understand the above?

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paarsurrey said:
  1. Secular scholarship generally agrees it was written by an anonymous non-eyewitness to Jesus’ ministry. The author apparently used the Gospel of Mark as one source and the hypothetical Q document as another, possibly writing in Antioch, c 80-85
  2. Beginning in the 18th century, however, scholars have increasingly questioned that traditional view, and today the majority agree Matthew did not write the Gospel which bears his name.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew
How would you understand the above?

I understand it as false. Q was created to bolster the agenda of undermining the Gospels.
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paarsurrey said:
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How could you say that? Any secular and historical reference please.

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It’s like Muslims saying God wrote the Quran. Just because it was edited by someone else, it doesn’t mean Matthew didn’t write or dictate any of the original content.

The Qur’ān did not exist in book form at the time of Muhammad’s death in 632. According to Sahih al-Bukhari, who wrote some 200 years after Muhammad’s death, the task of compilation fell to the scribe Zayd ibn Thabit at the direction of the first Muslim caliph Abu Bakr. Ibn Thabit gathered the Qur’ānic material “collecting it from parchments, scapula, leaf-stalks of date palms and from the memories of men who knew it by heart.” -wiki
 
paarsurrey said:
Hi

I give two excerpts from wikipedia:
  1. Secular scholarship generally agrees it was written by an anonymous non-eyewitness to Jesus’ ministry. The author apparently used the Gospel of Mark as one source and the hypothetical Q document as another, possibly writing in Antioch, c 80-85
  2. Beginning in the 18th century, however, scholars have increasingly questioned that traditional view, and today the majority agree Matthew did not write the Gospel which bears his name.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew
How would you understand the above?

Thanks
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Who cares if Matthew actually penned the Gospel or not? The human author of any book of the Bible is totally irrelevant.

Is the Book of Matthew the Divinely inspired word of God? The answer to that question is yes so any questions about it’s history, as interesting as they may be to some people, in the grand scheme of our salvation they are totally irrelevant.

Yours in Christ
Joe
 
The Gospels are Historical

THE CLEMENTINE TRADITION
is in full accord with:
The earliest Christian historians
Modern literary analysis
The doctrine of the church
Recent Church statements
The following pages contain the evidence for the claims made in this summary. They also contain chapters on the Epistles; how Markan priority grew; its baneful effect on both Protestant theology and Catholic Catechetics, and a history of the reaction of the Church.
 
paarsurrey said:
Hi

How could you say that? Any secular and historical reference please.

Thanks
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look to your own #1 post…even wiki calls the Q hypothetical. So your own source does not confirm that which you want to use to cast doubt upon the Holy Scriptures.

Also, no one has the Q, ever mentioned it or thought of it until @19th century when liberalism attempted to take divinity away from Christ and make Him a rational man.
 
paarsurrey said:
Hi

I give two excerpts from wikipedia:
  1. Secular scholarship generally agrees it was written by an anonymous non-eyewitness to Jesus’ ministry. The author apparently used the Gospel of Mark as one source and the hypothetical Q document as another, possibly writing in Antioch, c 80-85
  2. Beginning in the 18th century, however, scholars have increasingly questioned that traditional view, and today the majority agree Matthew did not write the Gospel which bears his name.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew
How would you understand the above?

Thanks
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Paarsurrey,
If you are trying to get converts to Islam by constantly trying to tear down the bible, I can tell you that you will not succeed.

You only succeed in making us more sure that Islam is every bit as Satanic as we believe it to be.

Paul
 
paarsurrey said:
Hi

I give two excerpts from wikipedia:
  1. Secular scholarship generally agrees it was written by an anonymous non-eyewitness to Jesus’ ministry. The author apparently used the Gospel of Mark as one source and the hypothetical Q document as another, possibly writing in Antioch, c 80-85
  2. Beginning in the 18th century, however, scholars have increasingly questioned that traditional view, and today the majority agree Matthew did not write the Gospel which bears his name.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew
How would you understand the above?

Thanks
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Dear Paar,

Do you have any proof other than just quoting from the wikipedia? May be, you can just show us the proof/anything that those wikipedia writers have to back their opinion. How can I can understand them, if I don’t see anything except subjective claims. I cannot argue other person’s subjective preference, can I. It will be their right to chose that way. BTW, what do you mean by majority? If one or two person says different things than what 100 persons say, it is not majority.
 
I find it interesting that Muslims will use every secular source to try to bring down the Bible yet allow no academic criticsm at all of the quaran.
 
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