The current consensus has a lot of concessions baked in. These don’t exactly make it a purely secular stance. Such as the order of the gospels, the date of the earliest manuscript, and “non canon” manuscripts being dated as “later” just simply because that fits the Christian narrative. And in fact, this consensus is starting to change, or at least being challenged more frequently.
The current consensus has a lot of concessions baked in. These don’t exactly make it a purely secular stance. Such as the order of the gospels, the date of the earliest manuscript, and “non canon” manuscripts being dated as “later” just simply because that fits the Christian narrative. And in fact, this consensus is starting to change, or at least being challenged more frequently.