Did They Have a Reason to Lie?

Would the writers of the Gospel and letters in the New Testament have got a motivation to manufacture their account? Did they have got any personal addition from writing? Obviously, if a motivation can be established for inventing the testimonies, the trustiness of the written document goes more than questionable. Conversely, if the writers had nil to gain, or even something to lose, the document's credibleness is increased.

So what happened to Toilet Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, and Alice Paul after authorship their Gospel and letters? Although there is only limited historical record about what happened to these work force after completing their writings, one can with certainty state that none of them retired affluent from the legal proceeding of any of their books. Contrary to that, the historical record shows that the early Christian Christian church and their leadership went through centuries of persecution, and the apostles spent their years traveling in poorness proclaiming their message.

More specifically, after completing his Gospel and the decease of Simon Peter in Roma (66-67 AD), tradition claims that Toilet Mark went to Alexandria in Arab Republic Of Egypt where he was martyred in 68 AD. According to the research of Dr. William Steuart McBirnie: "In the twelvemonth 68 ad Easter drop on the same twenty-four hours as the Serapis festival. The ferocious rabble had gathered in the Serapion and then descended on the Christians while they were celebrating Easter at Baucalis. St, Mark was seized, dragged with a rope around his cervix in the streets and then incarcerated for the night. In the followers morning time the same ordeal was repeated until he gave up the ghost." Other beginnings corroborate this business relationship as well as his entombment site.

What happened to Matthew, the taxation collector, is subject to multiple at odds traditions. His name is linked to assorted travelings throughout Hellenic Republic and Asia, but most hold on Asiatic Ethiopia, Persia, Macedonia, and Syria. All but one of these traditions claim an ill-timed decease as a sufferer for Christ. Unfortunately, none of these traditions are supported by convincing aim evidence.

According to Catholic tradition, Saint Luke was martyred or died a natural decease and was buried in Greece. In 356-357 ad his relics were taken to Constantinople. Later his caput was supposedly taken to Roma where it is kept in St. Peter's Basilica.

Before authorship his Gospel at an advanced age, Toilet moved to Ephesus in Asia Child shortly before the devastation of Jerusalem. At this strategical location he had a particular human relationship with other Christian Christian churches in the area, as we cognize through his letters to the seven churches in the book of Disclosure as well as through mentions in Hagiographa of the early church. After a time period of expatriate to the island of Patmos, he is believed to have got died of old age, around 100 AD, in Ephesus, where he was buried. The ruinations at the Basilica of St. Toilet are claimed to tag the land site of the tomb.

As for Paul, some claim that after his imprisonment as described at the end of the Book of Acts, he visited Kingdom Of Spain for a time period of at least two years. Subsequently, he returned to Roma where during Nero's persecution in 66/67 ad (about the same clip as Peter) he was beheaded.

So no moneymaking book trades for these writers, no exalted retirement on the Gallic Riviera. The testimony of these work force did not stop with the completions of their Gospel and letters. Their subsequent lives continued to proclaim the message. They lived in poverty, under the uninterrupted menace of persecution, and at the end, most of them paid the ultimate terms of an early decease by martyrdom. What earthly motivation could any of them have got ever had for fiction or even making the least alteration to the truth in their testimonies? They were writing for their Lord; they were writing to built hoarded wealths in heaven. Lying, exaggerating, whirling the truth, becoming famous, or gaining any wealth, was not on their agenda.