Gospel of Matthew, Hebrew original?

[karebear92]

we also have to remember that God watches over his church and people why would there be a secret gospel floating around that few people heard of? The council under the divine guidance of the holy spirt chose and canonized the bible as we have it today.

Well most agree that there is a lost Gospel (Q) that most likely had a bunch of Jesus’ sayings written down in them (which is where Matthew and Luke copied many of his sayings from. It isn’t secret or anything, but it hasn’t been discovered or recovered. Not that that matters, of course, because of your second point about the canon, but I thought I would add that.

 

[patrick457]

Well most agree that there is a lost Gospel (Q) that most likely had a bunch of Jesus’ sayings written down in them (which is where Matthew and Luke copied many of his sayings from. It isn’t secret or anything, but it hasn’t been discovered or recovered. Not that that matters, of course, because of your second point about the canon, but I thought I would add that.

Ten reasons to question Q.

 

[karebear92]

Ten reasons to question Q.

I just said most agree. I personally agree because my Theology professor, who is a Jesuit with an Ph.D in Historical Theology, says that it is the theory that most Biblical Scholars believe. I personally do not know Greek or the history of the scriptures enough to question him , so I just go with what I am taught. Thank you, though. The link was interesting.

 

[patrick457]

I just said most agree. I personally agree because my Theology professor, who is a Jesuit with an Ph.D in Historical Theology, says that it is the theory that most Biblical Scholars believe. I personally do not know Greek or the history of the scriptures enough to question him , so I just go with what I am taught. Thank you, though. The link was interesting.

To your professor’s credit, the Two-Source Hypothesis is indeed the majority opinion in scholarly circles today (there do exist other less-publicised but equally possible theories such as the Griesbach-Farmer and the Farrer-Goulder; I personally subscribe to the latter theory). The downside of this, though, is that very often this hypothesis is treated as - pun intended - ‘gospel truth’ today. So you would get to read books where the Logienquelle, aka Q’s supposed ‘existence’ is taken for granted and the Two-Source hypothesis repeated without question. Your professor isn’t really at fault here, now; he merely repeated what he was taught (just as you did!). And I’d bet that he probably doesn’t know that there are other solutions do exist, even if they don’t get as much publicity over the presses and scholarly circles.

The main problem with most studies and analyses of the Synoptic Problem nowadays is that instead of that they refract all the data through a preferred solution (which is almost always invariably the Two-source theory!), so instead of teaching you the actual problem, you’ll learn the ‘answer’ - or to be more exact, one of the proposed answers - first before you even know what the problem actually is.