When Were the Gospels Written? (The Dates of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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Does the Church Teach That Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Were Written by the People Who Were the Traditional Authors?
It's not a matter of church teaching that particular people wrote them. The important thing is that they were written under the inspiration of the holy spirit. But you don't have to be an apostle to be divinely inspired, he says.
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The four Gospels have been a primary source of information about Jesus Christ for 2,000 years, but in recent times, some skeptics have said they were written so late after Jesus, they aren't reliable. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli find out what tradition, Church teaching, and historical sources tell about when the Gospels were really written.
