[ChiefBoatswain]

That's true about all of the gospels, my friend. They were all written at a minimum decades after the events they purport to chronicle.

Then, they were "finalized" by Constantine, and he was a politician.

[cookcounty]

"That's true about all of the gospels, my friend. They were all written at a minimum decades after the events they purport to chronicle.

Then, they were "finalized" by Constantine, and he was a politician.

Well that's incorrect. I think you've been reading "The Gospel According to Dan Brown," and his definitely a fraudulent "Gospel." The Gospels were very very widely circulated, quoted and commented upon long before Conatantine.

[GarySpFc]

Not that far off, with the finding of the document 7Q5, Mark the first Gospel, is now considered by many scholars to have been written as early as 42 A.D.
Matthew was written anywhere from 50 to 80 A.D.
Luke had to have been written prior to Acts, and with no mention of Paul's death that means it was likely completed by 62 A.D.
John penned his Gospel around 90 A.D.