[Dog Gone]

If the accounts are actually contradictions, the early Christians would have noticed.

Are you kidding me? Do you think early Christians had access to all the writings so they could compare? How many of them could even read?

[Raycpa]

Are you kidding me? Do you think early Christians had access to all the writings so they could compare? How many of them could even read?

They certainly did have methods of comparing notes and understandings as described by Acts. Jesus often used the phrase "it is written". He expected his audience to cross check his words.

The Jerusalem Council

Acts 6 Now the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter.

[GarySpFc]

Are you kidding me? Do you think early Christians had access to all the writings so they could compare? How many of them could even read?

The Gospels and other writings were all in circulation by the turn of the century, and yes they could read. Jesus, as but one example, could read Hebrew, Aramaic, and almost certainly Greek.