Hi @barncat and thank you for taking the time to comment. Sorry I have taken a while to reply.

All the evidence says otherwise. Also, quoting passages from the Bible is not evidence of any fact unless you are of the belief that the Bible was handed down from God. In which case what about all the other writings of the 2500 or so other religions in the world? Where did they come from – oh yes from their gods. If a god did exist then only one set if writings can be right so why should it be yours? (And please don’t quote another passage from the Bible proving yours is the right one because it would, of course, say that wouldn’t it?)

You quote from Luke 1:1-4. This passage is merely Luke trying to establish his credentials. Many scholars argue that Luke is trying to unify the Gentile and Torah-observant sects of Christianity. Marks Gospel was promoting a gentile leaning Christianity while Matthews Gospel (written after Mark and heavily copying from him) attempts to go back to a more Torah-observant Christianity. Luke is saying with this passage that his account is the one to believe. I will do a complete post about Lukes Gospel at a later date showing how he copies from Mark, Matthew and Flavius Josephus and how his Gospel is nothing but a fabricated story written around 110-120 AD.

Your passage from 2 Peter 1:16 – This is widely held by scholars to be a second century forgery and nothing written by ‘the’ Peter. It is nothing more than a Christian book written to deal with the long-awaited arrival of Jesus to end the world and provides evidence that Christians had to combat the accusation that their religion was a deliberate theological construct.

The passage from 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 – As I will show in a later post concerning Pauls writings, there is every indication that Paul is something of a Mythicist. Paul often says that he received his understanding of Christianity from revelation directly from God. It is curious that Paul hardly mentions any biographical events of Jesus even when it would have made his case to the people he was writing to. Even those that are mentioned can be shown to be later insertions. He received his knowledge from visions and not men. He seems a good example of a schizotype.

Your quote from Jude 1:3 – There are indications that Jude was written sometime between the end of the 1st century and the first quarter of the 2nd century AD and cannot be considered to be written by an eyewitness.

I “don’t set out to destroy the authenticity of the Bible”. I go where the evidence takes me and the evidence is increasingly in favour of the Bible being nothing but a collection of made up stories. I also don’t “Do so to justify their own sin because they hate the way God runs the universe”. I don’t believe in a God or gods and believe that the universe runs to the laws of physics, chemistry and natural processes. I have nothing to hate but I do like to know the truth.

Thanks once again for taking the time to engage with me in debating this topic. As I have mentioned above, there are more posts to come (when I have the time to write them!) that deal with the remaining three gospels as well as Paul. I hope you will respond to those as well.