Christopoulos and Rawlings uploaded a video promoting traditional gospel authorship here.
My response was:
Barry Jones0 seconds ago
What would be unreasonable about the hypothesis that says Matthew and the author of Acts give inconsistent views about the risen Christ? Acts 1:3 says Jesus appeared to the apostles over a period of 40 days teaching things concerning the kingdom of God. Even assuming "40" is a figure of speech, it is obviously reasonable to assume the author wanted the reader to assume this risen Christ probably took longer than 15 seconds to teach about the kingdom of God. Matthew's version of the words of the risen Christ on the kingdom of God is so short, the entire thing could be uttered in 15 seconds. See Matthew 28:18-20. What exactly is "unreasonable" with the hypothesis that says it is highly unlikely that if Matthew believed the risen Christ's speech lasted over a period of days, or longer than 15 seconds, Matthew would most probably have given us more than a 15-second snippet? After all, wasn't Matthew interested in quoting the historical Jesus copiously? So can't we be reasonable to expect he'd also wish to copiously quote the risen Christ? What's "copious" about a 15-second snippet? Wasn't Matthew interested in the "kingdom of God" sayings of the historical Jesus? So can't we be reasonable to expect him to copiously quote many of the risen Christ's "kingdom of god" sayings? is it anywhere near "likely" that Matthew believed the risen Christ said anything more than what Matthew himself provides in ch. 28? How could you establish this with a skeptic who views the longer speeches of the risen Christ in Luke and John as fictional embellishment? Should I purchase Lydia McGrew's "Eye of the Beholder" and realize that the gospel of John is historically reliable? In other words, would you bid a spiritually dead atheist to have a more correct understanding of the gospel of John than all those spiritually alive Christian scholars Lydia criticizes in that book? Is it anywhere near "likely" that Matthew expected his originally intended readers to harmonize his account with Acts 1?
