Montalban
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Jesus instructed the eyewitnesses who understood they had to write it down.

That's still missing the point. You're not alone in this, so I'm not trying to pick on you.
Let's go through this in baby steps
Paul writes to the Thessalonians
The church in Rome, how do they know Paul actually wrote that Epistle?
The church in Antioch hears that there's a book called "The Gospel of Thomas". How do they know if Thomas wrote that, or not.
It starts off...
"These are the secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas recorded."
A Translation of the Gospel of Thomas
What is it about one book that screams "This is genuine" and another doesn't?
If you believe in sola scriptura then your evidence MUST come from the book itself.
300 or so years later they've got hundreds of books, Gospel of Mary, Gospel of John, Didache, Epistle to the Galatians, Acts of Peter, Acts of Paul, Acts of the Apostles
Within SOME of those books is the word of God. But does the word of God say at the beginning of the book "This is 100% genuine Word of God"?
Do these books even date themselves?
Please provide evidence from scripture.
Was Paul a witness?All of this is to show why, for example, Clement of Rome's letter was rejected as scripture. He wasn't an eyewitness. Same with Marcion. It wasn't whether they were or weren't Christian, but that their words are not equal to the actual eyewitnesses. We shouldn't equate the two.
Was Luke?
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