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Originally Posted by EatingPie
Wikipedia is horrible for any religious based information due to the potential for griefing. However, "fundamentalism" was a specific movement in the early 20th century similar to that described. It's become a catch-all phrase that has a sort of derogatory sense to it these days. (I've never heard anyone called a "fundamentalist" and it had been a good thing in context!)
If the evidence backed this up, sure. However, I do not believe the evidence comes even close to what you are asserting: "almost certainly" that "none" of the NT writings were by those of Jesus time. They were written later but I already stated my belief that they were still by eyewitnesses in some cases, specifically citing John (adding Matthew, with Mark and Luke talking to eyewitnesses).
I find it curious that The Bible is the most discussed book in a thread about The Koran! Nobody questions the authorship of the Koran? Would that not be more on topic?
-Pie
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it's been exhaustively proven by NUMEROUS scholars over the years that the NT was NOT written by people who knew and/or around when the historical jesus walked the earth. indeed... most of the Gnostic scriptures (those that were tossed out) have more historically correct, and actual real time accounts are more realistic and accurate than those that show up in the NT. WT has, I believe provided several non-wiki links. have you looked at them?
as far as the koran, it is a known and widely accepted fact that after the death of mohammed, there was a bit of a power struggle, all known copies of the koran were confiscated, and it was re-written in a form more acceptable to those in power.