| There is absolutely nothing to
show that these Gospels were written until a hundred and fifty years after the events they
claim to describe.
Christ is supposed to have been a Jew, and his
disciples are said to have been Jewish fishermen. His language, and the language of his
followers must, therefore, have been Aramaic but the Gospels are written in Greek . |
There is absolutely nothing to show that these Gospels -- the only sources of
authority as to the existence of Christ -- were written until a hundred and fifty years
after the events they pretend to describe. Walter R. Cassels, the learned author of
"Supernatural Religion," one of the greatest works ever written on the origins
of Christianity, says: "After having exhausted the literature and the testimony
bearing on the point, we have not found a single distinct trace of any of those Gospels
during the first century and a half after the death of Christ." How can Gospels which
were not written until a hundred and fifty years after Christ is supposed to have died,
and which do not rest on any trustworthy testimony, have the slightest value as evidence
that he really lived? History must be founded upon genuine documents or on living proof.
Were a man of to-day to attempt to write the life of a supposed character of a hundred and
fifty years ago, without any historical documents upon which to base his narrative, his
work would not be a history, it would be a romance. Not a single statement in it could be
relied upon. Christ is supposed to have been a Jew, and his disciples
are said to have been Jewish fishermen. His language, and the language of his followers
must, therefore, have been Aramaic -- the popular language of Palestine in that age. But
the Gospels are written in Greek -- every one of them. Nor were they translated from some
other language. Every leading Christian scholar since Erasmus, four hundred years ago, has
maintained that they were originally written in Greek. This proves that they were not
written by Christ's disciples, or by any of the early Christians. Foreign Gospels, written
by unknown men, in a foreign tongue, several generations after the death of those who are
supposed to have known the facts -- such is the evidence relied upon to prove that Jesus
lived.
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