While we’re talking about who wrote Hebrews, another thing that bugs me is when ‘scholars’ say we know the Gospels weren’t by the Apostles b/c the quotes from the Old Testament are from the Greek translations they had access too. Why on earth does that matter? If I’m speaking English & quote something in a different language, I quote it in the translation I have. I don’t translate it based off on my own translation. A Greek Jew would recognize the Greek quote. A Greek Jew would not recognize a translation the author translated himself.
I swear scholars look for the smallest holes in the Bible & base their whole understanding of it on grains of sand.
& it’s not just secular scholars. There’s Christian scholars who believe this
While we’re on that, I also think it’s dumb even Christian scholars think Matthew, Mark, & Luke are ‘synoptic’ & dependent on each other. Their similarities are b/c the authors would’ve told the stories the same. Why is it so hard to understand people tell stories similarly all the time? Would’ve even been more common in a culture that was much better orally than we are today. I also highly disagree John is radically different from the others. For example, Mark is the shortest & simplest, why not say that one is the one radically different? Each Gospel has its own uniqueness while all having similarities. They are exactly what you would expect to find based on 4 people’s different understanding of events.
