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| Prof Anele |
Three months or so after he berated Jesus Christ as a
non-existent person and pilloried the 27 Books in the New Testament and their
authors, Professor Douglas Anele of the Department of Philosophy, University of
Lagos, is at it again. This time in a series he began two weeks ago with the
headline of “an unbeliever’s interpretation of Easter” and which will continue
coming Sunday, he restated his claim that Jesus never graced this world, let
alone that he performed the miracles credited to him or that he was tried,
crucified, resurrected and ascended into heaven.
The piece is one he is writing mainly to highlight the
discrepancies in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John on the arrest,
trial, crucifixion, resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ, as an evidence
that the Holy Bible is a useless Book of incredible false stories. To him, this
is so because none of the authors of the Books in the New Testament was an
eyewitness of the events they wrote about. He claims that the four Books as
well as the other 23 in the New Testament were written fifty to hundred years
after the events took place. That is after the death of Jesus in 33AD, meaning
that he is saying they were written between 83 and 133AD. When all the 27 Books
were penned between 49 and late 110 AD, which were sixteen to seventy – seven
years after the death of Jesus.
No Christian will disagree with Anele about the differences
in the reports on the trial, crucifixion, resurrection and ascension of Jesus
because they are true. Like Anele and many a people, Christian and
non-Christian alike, I am also amazed at the conflicting reports on these
happenings. They are issues along with others that I intend to take up with the
Heavenly Father, after the book I am currently writing on the Popes of the
Catholic Church, and write about with the title: The Bible, Almighty God and
Me. The Lord in July 2013 lifted the suspension He placed in December 2006 on
me, asking Him questions on issues in the Holy Book and about creation.
I am reacting to Anele’s latest profane comments on Jesus
Christ and the Holy Bible because I later came to know that he was away in the
United States when in December and January I took him and Dr. Femi Aribisala up
on their claims that Jesus was born in September or October and not on December
25. So, he may not have read my articles showing that Jesus was truly born on
December 25 and that eight of the 27 Books in the New Testament were written by
Apostle Peter, Apostle Matthew, James the brother of Jesus and Jude, the
brother of James the Just, who one source said was the brother of Jesus and
another the sibling of Apostle James.
Thus, how can Professor Anele be correct that the Books were
by authors, who did not witness what they wrote about and that none of the 27
Books was written until 50 years after the events happened, that is after the
death of Jesus in 33AD, which would mean none of them was penned before 83AD,
when Apostles Peter and Paul were executed on the orders of Roman Emperor Nero
in 67 or 68 AD, that was 34 or 35 years after the death of Christ.
The two Books by Peter, 1 and 2 Peter were produced in 63
and 64AD. The 13 Books by Paul from Romans to Philemon were written between 49
and 63 AD. Galatians was in 49, 1 and 2 Thessalonians in 50 and 51, 1
Corinthians in 54, Romans and 2 Corinthians in 55AD, Ephesians, Colossians and
Philemon in 60 AD, Philippians in 61, 1 Timothy and Titus in 62AD and 2 Timothy
in 63AD. Hebrews which is said to have been written by either him or Apollos or
Barnabas and the book of Matthew was said to have been written in the 60s or 70
– 110 AD.
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