Christianity Quote by Simon Greenleaf

We don't actually know if the person who wrote the Gospel of John had a written copy of Thomas because we don't know exactly…

— Elaine Pagels

“The very first surviving account of Jesus’s life was written thirty-five to forty years after his death. Our latest canonical Gospel was written sixty…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“Paul also never quotes from Jesus's purported sermons and speeches, parables and prayers, nor does he mention Jesus's supernatural birth or any of his…

— D.M. Murdock

“Whoever wrote the Gospel of John (we’ll continue to call him John, though we don’t know who he really was) must have been a…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of…

— N.T. Wright

For nearly 2,000 years, most people assumed that the only sources of tradition about Jesus and his disciples were the four gospels in the…

— Elaine Pagels

“12. Historians today rely on classics like Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, Caesar’s Gallic War, and Tacitus’s Histories. The earliest copies we have…

— Michael S. Horton

Edited by mostly unknown scholars in A.D. 367, compiled from documents written 30 to 110 years after the Christ event by no one who…

— Leonard Shlain

Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two…

— Alfred Noyes

The interval, then, between the dates of original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact, negligible, and…

— Frederic G. Kenyon

John said the works of Jesus would fill the planet if they were all recorded. Thats the Holy Spirit unquenched for three and a…

— Bill Johnson

The New Testament was not produced as a single work issued by an authoritative Church for the instruction of its members. The four Gospels…

— Frederic G. Kenyon