Sentences with phrase «written years after the death»

Fighting over the Koran, that was written years after the death of Islam's beloved leader is senseless.

It is very unfortunate that Jesus was illiterate for it resulted in many gospels and epistles being written years after his death by non-witnesses.

Not exact matches

The limit of two five - year presidential terms was written into China's constitution after Mao's death in 1976 by Deng Xiaoping, who recognized the dangers of one - man rule and the cult of personality and instead espoused collective leadership.

«So, after 15 years, and 14 million dollars and counting, only one death sentence resulted,» Trenticosta wrote in an email.

The gospels were written years after Jesus died, a roman emperor decided what books were included, and there are many, many contradictions (the death of Judas is one of these).

Indeed, Shaw's affection for Chesterton was on full display in a mournful letter written to his widow Frances the day after his death, calling it «ridiculous that I, 18 years older than Gilbert, should be heartlessly surviving him.»

He also wasn't around when Augustus was alive (Tacitus was born in 56 AD... nearly 42 years after the death of Augustus) but he wrote about him too.

Written between 50 and 300 years after the death of Christ, over 300 books at one time, vetted down by the Emperor Constantine to a mere 78 at one point, a few more take out later, modified many times to suit it's political purpose.

Don't tell me the story written at least 30 years AFTER his death is your evidence... any records of the trial, crucifixion, birth records?

The presence of Jesus in accounts that were written 200 years after his death do not prove his existence any more than the lack of contemporaneous accounts disprove it.

Also, we know its a historical fact that no part of the New Testament was actually written by anyone who ever met Jesus or witnessed the events first hand; much of the New Testament was written 200 years after the death of Jesus.

They only wrote about him 40 + years after his death.

The evidence indicates that the written sources of our Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) are not later than c. AD 60; some of them have even been traced back to notes taken of our Lord's teaching while His words were actually being uttered... We have then in the Synoptic Gospels, the latest of which was complete between 40 - 50 years after the death of Christ, material which took shape at a still earlier time, some of it even before His death, and which, besides being for the most part 1st hand evidence, was transmitted along independent and trustworthy lines.»

The story wasn't written down for HUNDREDS of years after his death.

(g) Two very brief and references to him in letters by Roman administrators, written about 90 years after his death, and two references by Josephus, a Jewish historian.

Now if you want to get into details here's a few: not a word was written down until at least 60 years after Jesus» death.

lol talk by christ himself that is funny when the bible wasnt written till a few hundred years AFTER his supposed death.

Or perhaps like the poor gullible fool you are, you just accept things on faith knowing that nothing was written about this character until 30 - 40 years after death and knowing that stories told like that so many years after could very well hold little accuracy.

Just so you know mate, the gospels were not written until YEARS after Jesus» death.

Paul, who claimed to be a witness of the risen Jesus, wrote about 20 to 30 years after Jesus» death.

there are not and have never been hundreds of written accounts of jesus, and its been mentioned before, the only accounts of jesus were from people recording from hundreds of years after his death.

Writing about a quarter of a century after the death of Jesus, he says that the tradition passed on to him, presumably when he became a Christian some twenty years earlier, contained the following statements: «that Christ died; that he was buried; that he was raised to life on the third day; and that he appeared to Cephas and afterwards to the Twelve.

But insofar as «Jesus»» word was not written until 70 years after his death — rebirth, whatever, it's doubtful that any person who heard him utter anything at all from his mouth was still alive.

Melville had as well a second reason to hate Manhattan — the whole urban world of «Cain's city and citified man,» as he wrote in Billy Budd (1924), the novella whose publication helped restore his literary reputation thirty years after his death.

If you think it was written 300 years after his death, that may be true without meaning he wasn't a real person.

The new testament was written and approved hundreds of years after Christ's death.

actually, mike, all of the NT was written 70 - 300 years after jesus» death.

At the time Fiori's biography was written there was only a rumor of this, reported by Wladmir Rabi in «Du nouveau sur Simone Weil» (Les Nouveaux Cahiers, Autumn 1971) After many years of silence, to spare the sensibilities of Weil's family, Simone Dietz, who was very friendly with Weil in New York and later in London, where they worked for the Free French, told a meeting of the American Weil Society in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May 1988 that at Weil's request she herself baptized Weil (as a lay Catholic may do in extreme situations) a few months before Weil's death.

Are you aware that the new testament was just beginning to be written 500 years after Christ's death?

The bible was written over 1000 years after Jesus» death..

When a council finally met in 1545 at Trent, the Church's intervention was too late: Luther had written all his major treatises, and his followers continued his work after his death one year later.

@Gerald / Actually the bible (NT) Was written anywhere from 100 and more years after the death of Christ.

Allison — the books of the New Testament WERE in fact written by the apostles, most written about 30 years after the death of Christ.

It was compiled into one volume that long after, but we know all of the books were written and being circulated within 60 years of Jesus» death.

Josephus (also not a contemporary since not only was he born 25 years after the death of Jesus), he didn't write the antiquities until 93 - 94 CE.

In fact, documents that John Paul II wrote for the millennium continue to guide the Catholic Church years after his death, the cardinal says.

In the last years of his life his influence was further underscored in that others began to write books about him — a trend that was to intensify after his death so that now we see a steady stream of theses, monographs and studies coming out each year, though we still await the authorized biography to be done by his old friend John Howard Griffin.

it is well established historically that the gospels were written nearly a hundred years after the death of the fabled jesus by people who had never met him.

My humble advise to you is to go and study the history that how, when and who wrote these chapters and what type of time it went through and then say that if there is any statement in this book is the real time statements of Jesus PBUH... please be honest with yourself... and don't do anything to please others but only you... and make sure you are convince with this study... whats the difference btwn what is in this book and what was written in a book last year when a Hindu claim himself as God and millions believed in him and still they believe even after his death by being ill... no one asks if I take a human as my God then how could he be ill or eventually be dead?

Even the gospels were probably not written until some thirty to fifty years after the death of Jesus, although the material which they include circulated in oral form in the early Christian community.

A large number of leading New Testament scholars have now rejected these traditions as unhistorical, leaving us with two conclusions: the first, that none of the Gospels was written by an eye - witness of the events described in it, and the second, that the earliest Gospel, that of Mark, was written thirty - five years or more after the death of Jesus, and the other three Gospels were written nearly sixty years or more after the same point.

Here we are on much firmer ground than in the case of the Gospel narratives, for not only is it the earliest written testimony to the resurrection (written about twenty to twenty - five years after the death of Jesus), but it is first - hand testimony, and most probably the «only written testimony to come from one who could claim to be himself an «eye - witness» of the resurrection».18 Admittedly Paul, on his own admission, was in a very unusual category.

I agree — but the bible for christians was not even written by people who knew him — it was written over 200 years after his death.

Jesus might have roamed the earth but nothing was written about him until 30 - 40 years after his death.

Derp... fair question... you answer the question yourself (mostly): «Or did people many many years after the death of Jesus start writing down the things that John thought he remembered Jesus had said many years earlier but never actually bothered to write down?»

The BIBLE is a collection of writings (scriptures) written long after the death of a prophet named Jesus of Nazaret, and found more than a thousand years after that in a desert cave by a young goatherder.

Or did people many many years after the death of Jesus start writing down the things that John thought he remembered Jesus had said many years earlier but never actually bothered to write down?

How many religions do you believe or not believe and how many have you studied not only by reading (scripture) written well past 60 years after the supposed death of a god?

This yearning was shown by a stipulation in his will that no biography should be written until fifty years after his death.

AND please remember the bible was written approx. 200 years after the death of Jesus, so how factual is it, really???