Self-Mutation

This would make the most sense if applied logically.

There are many scenes in the Gospels that show Jesus as being alone with an angel or a person or with Satan (on top of the mountains in the desert with just satan and jesus)

Now, there's 2 conclusions we can make of this. Either Jesus told the writer of the Gospels what had transpired on the mountain word for word, or Jesus Himself wrote the Gospels.

Jesus writing them makes the most sense because that would explain all the "one on one" instances that only HE could know. It would also explain why the Gospels are so anonymous that nobody can figure out who wrote them despite 2,000 years of furious and intensified searches to find out.

if Jesus did not write the Gospels, then whoever wrote them would have to be one of the smartest people in existence. How would a fraud/faker be able to write a story in an era where people could see Jesus wouldn't be walking around if it was all a lie?!?!? Who would believe this story in the first century unless people knew Jesus existed?

Think about it. let's say you live in Los Angeles California and someone says that there's a guy there healing the sick and doing various miracles. All we would have to do is go to L.A. to see if it was true or not! The people in L.A. would already know this isn't true cause they wouldn't see anyone doing miracles!

So, how did the Gospels come about to be believed in the first century (if there was no Jesus) and turn out to be the world's largest religion based on ANONYMOUS "no one knows who wrote them" texts?!?!?

It's simple if you assume Jesus wrote them and I do not know why no one has ever thought of this before.

Archaeopath

When d'you think the gospels were written, S-M?

Vampyroteuthis

Because people are dumb and like to believe fairy tales.

Amaleq13

No, there are at least 3. You forgot "The author made up those passages."

What makes you think any of these stories existed while Jesus was allegedly walking around?

Kooks and Quacks of the Roman Empire: A Look into the World of the Gospels

You are confusing "simplistic" with "simple".

Self-Mutation

After Jesus was resurrected.

Self-Mutation

First Century man must've been the dumbest in existence then.

Archaeopath

How long after?

What date was he resurrected?

show_no_mercy

If Jesus wrote the gospels then he must've been suffering from alzheimers or was senile when he wrote them. Not only that, but the gospels are written in third person.

gdeering

What a half-hearted troll. You need to get a bit of Christian consensus first. Please drop Luke since it seems to have an alleged author, our rather source. Did Jesus write the Gospels after his death? Much action takes place post-mortem. Also, given the confusion among the Gospels why didn't Jesus get his story straight?

Gregg

James Brown

While it's not impossible for a person to write about himself in the third person, it was certainly rare in the first century. But assuming that, we have more problems.

First, why would he write four gospels, let alone the other gospels there were never canonized (Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Mary Magdalene, etc.)

Second, the contradictions. Certainly Jesus would have been able to keep the stories straight.

Third, the claims in Luke that the accounts "were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses." If Jesus is referring to himself as "us" and merely reporting what others saw, then he's telling a lie. Or the Gospel is one big fabrication. Which is it?

Fourth, this explanation doesn't explain why Matthew and Luke copy passages whole cloth from Mark, and also depart significantly from Mark when expedient. Why in the world would one man do that?

If Jesus wrote four gospels hoping to deceive the entire world that they were written by four people until one person by the name of SM figured it out two thousand years later, then we have an answer to C.S. Lewis' Lunatic, Liar, or Lord trilemma, and it isn't the third choice.