[iowamark]

“Don’t forget that those who wrote the gospels were doing so from a distance of 200 years."

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[The_Reader_David]

“Don’t forget that those who wrote the gospels were doing so from a distance of 200 years."

Bloody silly assertion. It's obvious that St. Luke interviewed the Virgin Mary--Holy Tradition says that he even "wrote" several icons of her from life, one, a small icon carved in mastic overlaid on wood, is preserved in the Monastery of Simonas Petras on Mount Athos.

Now it is true that the oldest extant manuscript of the Gospels date to about 200 A.D.