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Diogenes the Cynic · 04-24-2006, 01:08 PM

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Is everybody in agreement that Mathew was indeed the author of the Gospel according to Mathew?

No. The near universal agreement in scholarship (even Christian scholarship) is that he was not.

fromdownunder · 04-24-2006, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Carin Nel

Hi Peter

Fromdownunder, do you also agree, mmm?

By the way, my source is the DAKE'S ANNOTATED REFERENCE BIBLE by Finis Jennings Dake.
Regards
Carin

No I don't. I just wanted to leave the whole question nice and simple, so that we would not get distracted from the issue of the dating of Matthew. But since you raised authorship, start on that and I will join in if others dont.

Norm

Patriot7 · 04-24-2006, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by fromdownunder

No I don't. I just wanted to leave the whole question nice and simple, so that we would not get distracted from the issue of the dating of Matthew. But since you raised authorship, start on that and I will join in if others dont.

Norm

If the Gospel of Matthew was not written by Matthew, then who did write it?

greyline · 04-24-2006, 02:26 PM

If we don't know who wrote it, does that mean Matthew must have written it?

Diogenes the Cynic · 04-24-2006, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Patriot7

If the Gospel of Matthew was not written by Matthew, then who did write it?

Somebody else.

Patriot7 · 04-24-2006, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by greyline

If we don't know who wrote it, does that mean Matthew must have written it?

What do you mean by that?

Patriot7 · 04-24-2006, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Diogenes the Cynic

Somebody else.

And is that your opinion? Or a historical fact?

Diogenes the Cynic · 04-24-2006, 02:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Patriot7

And is that your opinion? Or a historical fact?

The latter.

Diogenes the Cynic · 04-24-2006, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Patriot7

What do you mean by that?

It means you don't have to know who DID write something in able to determine that someone else did NOT. I don't know who wrote Homer's epics, but I know it wasn't Abraham Lincoln.

Mageth · 04-24-2006, 02:43 PM

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And is that your opinion? Or a historical fact?

Are you kidding? If Matthew didn't write it, it was still written, no? Therefore, someone else must have written it, if Matthew didn't.

Sometimes, I just don't get people's attempts at arguments around here...

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