- 13 Apr 2020 18:31
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I would suggest that it was written considerably later. Luke-Acts is dependant and hence later than Mark. Mark itself was written quite some time after the fall of Jerusalem in 71AD as it seeks to explain away the failure of the apocalypse and the second coming to follow on from this seemly massively significant event. The earliest Christians never talk about a return, because it was only later that Jesus's drama and sacrificed was envisaged to have been taken place on Earth. The Epistle to the Hebrews is the closest we come to a smoking gun of Jesus's non existent. Luke can not be trusted at all as a source of information about the early Christian Church at the time of Paul.
At first sight it may seem natural to believe that there was an ordinary human preacher / healer / guru / resistance leaser who became increasingly mythologised and divinised. However on examination the evidence does not support this thesis at all.
Pants-of-dog wrote:Acts of the Apostles (which tells his story) was written in AD70.
I would suggest that it was written considerably later. Luke-Acts is dependant and hence later than Mark. Mark itself was written quite some time after the fall of Jerusalem in 71AD as it seeks to explain away the failure of the apocalypse and the second coming to follow on from this seemly massively significant event. The earliest Christians never talk about a return, because it was only later that Jesus's drama and sacrificed was envisaged to have been taken place on Earth. The Epistle to the Hebrews is the closest we come to a smoking gun of Jesus's non existent. Luke can not be trusted at all as a source of information about the early Christian Church at the time of Paul.
At first sight it may seem natural to believe that there was an ordinary human preacher / healer / guru / resistance leaser who became increasingly mythologised and divinised. However on examination the evidence does not support this thesis at all.
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