Who is the author of the second gospel?
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Actually, God is the Author of the gospel of Mark. The bible is the Inspired Word of God, written down by human hands for the benefit of mankind.
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Augustine of Hippo, who is the third most influential man in Christian history after Jesus and Paul. His book, The City Of God, opened my eyes to the fact that Christianity is a faith of both the heart and the mind. Meaning, our intellects are just as involved in our faith as our hearts. \n\nHe's writing are deep and in spite he's faults he was a man who sincerely sought to do God's will.
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If the "Jesus Christ" somebody believes in is "another Jesus" from "another Gospel" (as St. Paul warned us about...)  - then they cannot rightly claim "Christian" as a title.
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'Preach the gospel, use words if you must."\n\nAttributed to St. Francis of Assisi, actual author unknown
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The name above every other name is Jesus Christ.Is this what you are referring to?What do you mean "who wrote it?"
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3rd or 4th-century document called "The Gospel of Judas" was launched upon an unsuspecting world yesterday by no less a biblical authority than the National Geographic magazine in Washington. Its contents were "explosive", according to Mario Roberty, president of the Swiss foundation which now owns the ancient papyrus manuscript. \n\nSo as the heat faded from the television lights at the press conference, has 2000 years of orthodox Christianity been overturned? Well, not quite. But it was all jolly interesting, for those who love that sort of thing.\n\nHalf of the 62-page codex, written in Coptic script, is devoted to an account of the final days of Jesus Christ written from the viewpoint of the man who has for two millennia been excoriated as Christ's deadly betrayer. The text begins: "The secret account of the revelation that Jesus spoke in conversation with Judas Iscariot three days before he celebrated Passover..."
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First - it's not that easy.  \n\nThere are lots of people who believe different ways about he second coming and lots of theologian will have it wrong s well.\n\n For starters, read the book of Daniel and then right afterword, read the book of Revelation.  Then read Matthew 24.  After you are done with that, go back to Daniel 12:10 and then Ecclesiastes 7:25-29.  Regarding wisdom, do you qualify to understand the answer to your question?  Are you wise as to one in a thousand? \n\nBetter get qualified first.  \n\nThere are no easy answers here friend.
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I definately recommend you reading the Nag Hammadi Library.  It will give you a different persective on Jesus and the people surrounding him.  I think the idea is probable as you make a good point that her Gospel was left out. (as was so many others)  Here are some links that might interest you.
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Actually, two writers of the Gospels in the biblical canon were writing their accounts of Jesus based off the accounts they heard from the apostles and divine inspiration. The Gospels were all written maybe 40 years after Jesus's death, but I believe that God intended for those specific four Gospels to be in the Bible and therefore I believe they are legitimate.
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The author is unknown. One of those dear souls who wrote a song loved over the centuries and s/he goes totally unadorned for the creativity and talent.\n\nHere is what I found:\n\nWho wrote it? No one knows. But it’s been around for a long time. Although I couldn’t speak to its author, I could start with two facts. First, the twelve days are the period between the differing celebrations of Christmas—December 25 (in the Western church) and January 6 (in the Eastern church).\n\nSecond, people living when it was written commonly wrote, painted, and thought using symbols to express what they meant. All those birds and people are probably much more than they seem. (It certainly isn’t a coded list of significant biblical numbers. That probably confuses it with a similar song called “In Those Twelve Days”.) So I started looking. Here’s what I found.\n\nIn the Middle Ages birds were symbols of a human being, the soul, and each bird had specific associations. But the birds in the song had interesting Christian connections.\n\nThe partridge was always associated with Jesus’ birth. More than that, so was the pear tree. So the song begins with a double-image of the Nativity! \nSince I’m thinking of Jesus’ birth, “two turtle doves” brought to mind Jesus’ presentation at Mary’s purification (Luke 2:21-24) and the Spirit’s descent upon him after his baptism at the start of his public ministry (Luke 3:21-22). \n“French hens,” symbols of self-sacrifice and care, are reminiscent of Jesus’ role as the Good Shepherd to his own while he was among them. \n“Calling birds”? One author suggested it might originally be “colley birds,” that is, blackbirds. (Unfortunately I haven’t found anything on their symbolism…yet.) \nSince it’s Christmas, the “five gold rings” aren’t jewelry. Instead they remind us of golden ring-necked pheasants that were often associated with Nativity scenes (as can be seen in Fra Angelico’s Nativity) as well as a royalty (suggesting Jesus’ Messianic role) and the promise of life that rises from the ashes of death. \n“Geese” (whether white or gray) symbolized spiritual vigilance, avoidance of worldly pleasures, wholehearted devotion to Godly obedience. Sounds like Jesus again. \n“Seven swans” bring the opening series to a climax. Swans, always associated with royalty and prophecy, were thought to know the hour of their death and announce their death with a great cry (“swan song”), thereby earning them an enduring association with Christ’s work on the cross. Then add the biblical nuance of seven suggesting a completed work, and the connection to the cross is complete. \nBoy, this was really interesting! If I’d lived 500 years ago, singing the first seven verses could be a powerful reminder of my Savior, his life and work. \n\nAs anyone who sings this song knows, from here on you gotta hold on to your dentures! Momentum gathers with the last five gifts – all people. Lowly “milk maids” at work give way to dancing “ladies” and “lords” in ever-increasing displays of joy, followed by an orchestra of “pipers” and “drummers” to support the chorus, and rehearsed at a speed that carries me along in its grand celebration. What a wonderful way to celebrate the coming of our Savior!\n\nThen I got out my calculator. How many gifts were there? If one arrives on the first day, three on the second, six on the third, …by the last day there’s a grand total of 364 gifts. That’s one for every day of the year!\n\nNow at last I understood. “My True Love” was no mere earthly lover but my Heavenly Father. The gift of His Son was sufficient for every day of my year.\n\nThe irony? Everybody, even my fellow Christians, think it’s only a secular song. They even enjoy the lusty singing of its parodies – like “The Twelve Days After Christmas – to mock at the corruption of the holiday. They don’t understand why I can’t laugh and sing it with t
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It shows that ALL gospels, including the ones found in the Christian's New Testament, were written as a result of their own theology, rather than historical events that they witnessed. Each author had an agenda, and so he wrote stories about Jesus that 'proved' his agenda. The author of the Gospel of Judas believed that Jesus gave permission to Judas to betray him, thus absolving Judas of any wrong, so he wrote a story to 'prove' it. The others gospels did the same thing.
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http://www.christgospelokc.org/GospelSongBook.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming\n\nPick one, there are dozens to choose from (all wrong, of course).
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BlackFedora wrote:\n"all of the new testament was written after Jesus' death"\n\n...and none of it by anybody who lived when jesus was alive.  It's all second-hand.  You can't prove it's credibility.
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1.\nCover may not depict edition offered for sale\n:}\n\n John G. Gager was a Christian author\nThrough an exhaustive analysis of Paul's letters to the Galatians and the Romans, Gager provides illuminating answers to the key questions: Did Paul repudiate the Law of Moses? Did he believe that Jews had been rejected by God and replaced as His chosen people by Gentiles? And did he expect to find salvation through Jesus?
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I have no clue.  I don't read the gospel.  It never was his gospel, anyway.   Where is this Gospel of Jesus?
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Absolutely...a really good book to read is "Misquoting Jesus" by Bart Ehrman.  He did a lot of research on this topic.