The Four Gospels: apostolic and historical

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The Church has always taught that all four Gospels are of Apostlic origin.

The Church also teaches that the four Gospels are historical in character and that they faithfully hand on what Jesus really did and taught in his life among us and for our eternal salvation.

The Gospel writers did not record things which, even though false, they judged to be more profitable for their readers.
 
The Gospels were written by Apostles or men who had direct contact with them (such as Luke). The men who wrote them were inspired by God through the Holy Spirit.While they didn’t record everything Jesus said or did (I suggest the same could be said for any biography of McArthur, Roosevelt, Lincoln or anyone else), I believe that the important things were recorded.
 
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The Gospels were written by Apostles or men who had direct contact with them (such as Luke). The men who wrote them were inspired by God through the Holy Spirit.While they didn’t record everything Jesus said or did (I suggest the same could be said for any biography of McArthur, Roosevelt, Lincoln or anyone else), I believe that the important things were recorded.
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Yeah he pretty much hit the nail on the head here so im not going to add much except that all the Gospels were written within the lifetimes of the Apostles
 
"The Church has always and everywhere held and continues to hold that the four Gospels are of apostolic origin. For what the Apostles preached in fulfillment of the commission of Christ, afterwards they themselves and apostolic men, under the inspiration of the divine Spirit, handed on to us in writing: the foundation of faith, namely, the fourfold Gospel, according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

“Holy Mother Church has firmly and with absolute constancy held, and continues to hold, that the four Gospels just named, whose historical character the Church unhesitatingly asserts, faithfully hand on what Jesus Christ, while living among men, really did and taught for their eternal salvation until the day He was taken up into heaven (see Acts 1:1).”

Second Vatican Council, Dei Verbum, n. 18-19.

Many people talk about Vatican II, but few have actually read the documents.
 
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