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numberwang said:
JWeinCom said:

Well there are lots of reasons for that...

3.  The Bible was written, at the earliest, 50 years after Jesus' death.

The letters of Paul are dated to his lifetime, so directly in the years after Jesus' death and before the destruction of Jerusalem (40-68 AD)

Yeah, I got my times wrong.  For some reason I was counting from 1 CE.  Still, even several years is enough for a story to be distorted.  Moreover, Paul was not a witness to the ressurection, so he couldn't truly confirm or deny anything that happened.  I believe the gospels were written later.  Most scholars believe around 70-100 CE I think.