Gday,
jaywill writes:
Conspiracy theory. If you're paranoid enough you can see a conspiracy everywhere.
No it's not.
Writing a book in someone else's name is one person's actions.
A conspiracy is a group of people agreeing to commit a crime.
Writing a book in someone else's name is NOT a conspiracy at all.
jaywill writes:
The central figure of his writing is a pristine example of honesty and integrity.
Really?
Where is the evidence for that?
jaywill writes:
In fact Jesus in Matthew exemplifies and also teaches the highest human morality on earth. Yet you imagine that to persuade us of this Matthew injects a deceptive tactic.
It WASN'T Matthew!
It was any anonymous writer, LATER named as Matthew.
Anyway -
writing a book in someone else name was very common in those times :
* the Pastorals were forged in Paul's name
* the letters of Peter weren't written by him
* the letters of John were not written by John
* the letter of Jude was not written by him
* numerous Gospels and Apocalypses were forged in that period
* Christian history is full of forgeries such as the Donation of COnstantine, the Apostolic Constitutions, the Decretals, the Clementina, erc. etc.
jaywill writes:
My imagination is also able to surmise various alternative conspiratorial explanations. But I think the simple interpretation is the most likely
NOT ONE SINGLE person here has suggested a conspiracy theory.
Kapyong