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Originally Posted by Groundhog
At best the NT is a collection of stories that were probably spoken aloud before being put to paper starting a decade or more after the events described. As you probably know, what we have today as the NT was originally a much larger collection of tales that was selectively trimmed by a council of humans back in 325 AD, a good 3 centuries after the events. I say humans because we haven't changed much biologically in the last 1700 years, and I don't think many today would be happy with a council of anyone re-mixing the NT while claiming to be acting under divine authority.
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Obviously there's a lot more research to process on all of this, but I found this which at least seems to be a nice brief analysis.
A Chronological New Testament | HuffPost
Or in a graphical format:
The Dating of the Gospels