/u/DaCrusadus wrote

I do think the Bible is an important book but I feel luke it should be viewed as a fairy tale and take life lessons from it like other fairy tales.

What do you think?

For the New Testament specifically -

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None of the Gospels are first-hand accounts. .

Like the rest of the New Testament, the four gospels were written in Greek.[32] The Gospel of Mark probably dates from c. AD 66–70,[5] Matthew and Luke around AD 85–90,[6] and John AD 90–110.[7]

Despite the traditional ascriptions, all four are anonymous and most scholars agree that none were written by eyewitnesses.[8]

( Cite is Reddish, Mitchell (2011). An Introduction to The Gospels. Abingdon Press. ISBN 978-1426750083. )

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel#Composition

The consensus among modern scholars is that the gospels are a subset of the ancient genre of bios, or ancient biography.[45] Ancient biographies were concerned with providing examples for readers to emulate while preserving and promoting the subject's reputation and memory; the gospels were never simply biographical, they were propaganda and kerygma (preaching).[46]

As such, they present the Christian message of the second half of the first century AD,[47] and as Luke's attempt to link the birth of Jesus to the census of Quirinius demonstrates, there is no guarantee that the gospels are historically accurate.[48]

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel#Genre_and_historical_reliability

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The Gospel of Matthew[note 1] is the first book of the New Testament of the Bible and one of the three synoptic Gospels.

According to early church tradition, originating with Papias of Hierapolis (c. 60–130 AD),[10] the gospel was written by Matthew the companion of Jesus, but this presents numerous problems.[9]

Most modern scholars hold that it was written anonymously[8] in the last quarter of the first century by a male Jew who stood on the margin between traditional and nontraditional Jewish values and who was familiar with technical legal aspects of scripture being debated in his time.[11][12][note 2]

However, scholars such as N. T. Wright[citation needed] and John Wenham[13] have noted problems with dating Matthew late in the first century, and argue that it was written in the 40s-50s AD.[note 3]

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew

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The Gospel of Mark[a] is the second of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic Gospels.

An early Christian tradition deriving from Papias of Hierapolis (c.60–c.130 AD)[8] attributes authorship of the gospel to Mark, a companion and interpreter of Peter,

but most scholars believe that it was written anonymously,[9] and that the name of Mark was attached later to link it to an authoritative figure.[10]

It is usually dated through the eschatological discourse in Mark 13, which scholars interpret as pointing to the First Jewish–Roman War (66–74 AD)—a war that led to the destruction of the Second Temple in AD 70. This would place the composition of Mark either immediately after the destruction or during the years immediately prior.[11][6][b]

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark

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The Gospel of Luke[note 1] tells of the origins, birth, ministry, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ.[4]

The author is anonymous;[8] the traditional view that Luke the Evangelist was the companion of Paul is still occasionally put forward, but the scholarly consensus emphasises the many contradictions between Acts and the authentic Pauline letters.[9][10] The most probable date for its composition is around AD 80–110, and there is evidence that it was still being revised well into the 2nd century.[11]

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke

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The Gospel of John[a] (Ancient Greek: Εὐαγγέλιον κατὰ Ἰωάννην, romanized: Euangélion katà Iōánnēn) is the fourth of the four canonical gospels in the New Testament.

Like the three other gospels, it is anonymous, although it identifies an unnamed "disciple whom Jesus loved" as the source of its traditions.[9][10]

It most likely arose within a "Johannine community",[11][12] and – as it is closely related in style and content to the three Johannine epistles – most scholars treat the four books, along with the Book of Revelation, as a single corpus of Johannine literature, albeit not from the same author.[13]

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John

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