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well there was obviously a Gospel being preached from circa 30ad, surely oral at first until they had the opportunity to write things downI’d say Mark was written first because Colossians 2:8 cautions against deceptive philosophy (which by the way is still applicable to this conversation), so it seems a Christian philosophy would have already been established... what else could it have been but what Mark had written?
Colossians was written between 58-62 ad
Colossians 1:16 = John 1:1+
and everyone says John is the last Gospel written around 100ad
they say all of the other gospels were written in the 70-80s AD
but the High Christology of the Gospel of John was already present in Paul's writings 40 years before John was written...
and decades before our surviving Greek translations of Latin Mark and Hebrew Matthew were composed
with all due respect, this discussion is preposterous - Jesus was crucified by the Jews on the capital charge of blasphemy = just shy of equating himself with God...
and ratified by the Romans for claiming to be , lord of lords king of kings
and as a lowly humble itinerant preacher, he only was only able to claim to be world emperor... Because of the miracles attributed to him!
miracles => claim to be the messiah => charged with blasphemy and crucified for denying Caesar
remove any of those links of cause and effect and there remains no coherent explanation for what happened
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