I would respond with telling my mom that there is a new way of analyzing the New Testament since her high school days. Students are now being taught that there is a difference between the literal truth and the religious truth. People are now taught of God as someone who we can have a personal relationship with rather than having a distant God. One of the main changes about the Gospels is we now no longer believe that an angel was speaking directly to the authors of the gospels. Instead, we are taught to think of the authors as witnesses to Jesus and early Christianity. Along with this new way of thinking about God came new ideas about the Gospels. There are now believed to be three different sides to Jesus: the actual Jesus, the historical Jesus and Jesus like the one presented in the Gospels. The gospel Jesus is used in order to support and promote the faith of believers and help convert the non-believers. Some of the people who look at the New Testament looking for historical accuracy even say that the Gospels are advertisements. They are meant to give information about …show more content…
These authors are now thought to be various types of people, from Gentile converts to a bilingual scribe. These authors also would change their writings based on the sources available to them, their audience, and their own traditions. Not only were there the four canon gospels there were countless gospels that never made it into the New Testament. To get into the New Testament there were three tests that each gospel had to pass. The gospel had to agree with the rule of faith, be believed to have been written by either an apostle or someone who knew the apostles, and it had to be popular within the Church. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were not written as biographies, as was believed for most of the Church, but instead they were written as the proclamation of His Gospel, His Good