Where the authors of the Gospels the actual indivduals (Mt, Mk, Lk, Jn) or some follower?

Question

As a Roman Catholic I believe that the authors who wrote them were indeed inspired by God and that it is the very word of God but I do not believe that Matthew Mark or Luke wrote their own Gospel. John... not so sure of.

Regards,

Br. Josemaria Rojas, OSB

Answer 1

Most historians consider that the individuals whose names are on the gospels are indeed the scribes who wrote the books.  

Answer 2

No serious biblical scholar thinks those books were written by anyone named matthew, mark, luke and john, and anyone who does tell you that is deluded or ignorant.

For those people who disagree: go to iidb and state your evidence.

Answer 3

Matthew was a tax collector so his writing come from a tax collector's point of view and you can see it in his gospel Luke was a physician so he concentrates on medical things like Jesus' healing

Answer 4

I'm not absolutely sure if Obama wrote his own speech last nite, and every body is sure who wrote what 2,000 yrs ago. There's something wrong here.

Answer 5

just ONE example of the doubts of authorship of various biblical texts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_M...

Answer 6

I believe they were written by the men to whom they are attributed.  By the second century , the gospels were attributed to them.  I don't think that early Christians expressed any doubt about the authorship.  Doubts arose in later centuries.

From what I have read of document Q, it is a theory, not an actual physical document.

Answer 7

Ok keep deluding yourself my friend

Answer 8

The Gospel According to Thomas (Coptic: also known as The Gospel of Thomas, is a New Testament-era apocryphon, nearly completely preserved in a Coptic papyrus manuscript discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt.

The text is in the form of a codex, bound in a method now called Coptic binding. It was written for a school of early Christians who claimed Thomas the Apostle as their founder. Unlike the four canonical gospels, Thomas is not a narrative account of the life of Jesus and is not worked into any overt philosophical or rhetorical context. Rather, it is logia, or gospel sayings, with short dialogues and sayings attributed to Jesus.

In the incipit, the writer is styled Didymus Judas Thomas. Didymus (Greek) and Thomas (Hebrew) both mean twin, and the name Judas (Greek: Ιούδας), also Jude or Judah, is the anglicized Greek rendering of the Hebrew name Yehudah (Hebrew: יְהוּדָה).

The work comprises 114 sayings attributed to Jesus. Some of these sayings resemble those found in the four canonical Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). Others were unknown until its discovery, and Christian scholars assert that a small number are incompatible with sayings in the four canonical gospels.[citation needed] No major Christian group accepts this gospel as canonical or authoritative.

Answer 9

It was common in the era during and after the Apostles to have a scribe take your dictation, or even have an oral record written down on your behalf, even after you had died, and still have it attributed to you. So, both ideas are probably correct, Those individuals may not have penned the volumes themselves, but in the end, they are their inspired works just the same.  Thanks for asking!

Answer 10

Yes, rigorous Biblical scholarship supports the authors being the names of each book. See a good Bible commentary for historical evidence. It is interesting to note that the gospel of Mark was probably dictated to Mark by Peter.

The only book written by an unknown author is Hebrews.

Answer 11

mark luke and john was written by them so believe 1corth galatains and 1and 2nd tim was written by paul have a good night

Answer 12

You're Catholic so you wouldn't believe it anyway.

Answer 13

These 4 books are named after their individual writers.