Who Wrote the Gospels?

Don’t forget to watch part 1: https://youtu.be/SUI-7durA1g?si=Fmerc2L_D_VB_qsc

Yet another instance where an argument against the Bible relies on criticism a real historian would never apply to an ancient work. Also relies on the assumption ancient people were stupid and gullible, unlike us enlightened modern folk.

Another great entry from IP. I knew Matthew being falsely labeled made no sense due to his place in Jewish society, but I had not thought about why Mark and Luke made no sense until now. As for John, it definitely makes sense that he is the author of only because it took 1900 years for a debate to even arise

My absolute favorite part of any IP video is when Michael says "However"! Then what follows is a reaffirmation of Faith. At least for me it is. Thank you Mr. Jones! May Jesus Christ see your fine works and bless you for it! ✝️

Thank you for this brilliant summary. You are generously doing this research so we don't have to, and handing us all the facts we need to face the doubters and malicious debunkers!

Great point about Caesar not naming himself as author and even refering to himself in the third person in his Commmentaries, yet nobody seriously denies his authorship...

IP's videos should be shown in all Christian classes

This is brilliant showcase of why the 'anonymous gospels' argument is so farfetched.

IP is a gem!! Love this. God bless your family and Ministry ❤️🙏✝️

Ip continues to honour Jesus so wonderfully may God inspire him to fight for the christian faith in trying times.

what kills me is if I write a letter the only thing that proves it's from me is on the envelope so why would anyone assume that there has to be some official seal on the letter itself back in their time? it was common practice then and it is so now.

I've always found the timing of the skeptics argument kind of convenient. From the second century onward we know 100% that the gospels had titles. We also have zero attestation that they ever didn't have the titles or had different names attached. Yet for the one century where we don't have anything it is assumed without evidence that they were anonymous. We have no evidence of this and we do have 19 centuries of the contrary yet for the one century with a question mark it is simply assumed that these documents couldn't have had names attached.

That point on Theophilus(6:48) was so mind-blowing. I never would have thought of something like that. Great video!

Excellent work, IP. I knew a couple of these considerations already, but you definitely added to my apologetic knowledge on this topic with this video.

I’ve been searching information on this topic for the past month, and you’ve brought the arguments all together for me so succinctly! Thank you!

Hello! This video is exactly what i have been needing, thank you and God bless

I’ve been waiting for a clear-cut video on this. It will be such a big help when trying to explain to others. God Bless you!

I've been a supported of "why do you believe?" not just believing. Your content has been a great source of historical and logical arguments for the authenticity of Christianity and the Bible.

It’s easy to miss the forest for the trees here… The burden here lies with those who reject the authorship attestation of the gospels to present evidence to prove that these documents were not written by the ascribed authors. Not the other way around. Why? Because gospel authorship has already been asserted and attested by secular and non-secular sources, which this video touches on via the manuscript evidence of notable ancient historians. The nature of ancient textual analysis means dealing with manuscript evidence that is likely partial fragments of originals or of copies of originals. To my knowledge, there are no surviving original copies of the gospels; but there are many thousands of copies written in several languages that spawned from the originals, and those copies are remarkably consistent. The earliest copies of the gospels we have for which the title tags have survived attribute the gospels to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. And as the video mentions, these titles align with attested authorship noted by ancient sources and recorded oral tradition which all attributed the gospels to the same authors. No ancient documents have nearly as much historical evidence in support of their authorship and authenticity as the gospels do, despite what some skeptic ‘scholars’ would have you believe. And no figure in ancient history, or all of history, has been cited as prolifically as Jesus of Nazareth; nor has anyone sparked such unprecedented change in the ancient world which persists to this very day. Take any historical figure in ancient history, or even all of history, and trace their impact on all aspects of society throughout the ages, and you will find none who come close to Jesus of Nazareth - a carpenter who lived 2,000 years ago in a little town underneath the heel of the Roman Empire that no one outside of that region had ever heard of before, and who was in the public eye for only about 3 years. Move along, definitely nothing to see here.

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