Who Wrote the New Testament It was not written before the laws of the Catholic Church were known and that happened at the end of the 4th CAD.
It has similarities to other religious beliefs, such as that of Krishna and the Vedic Trinity.
The stories in the gospels differ.
The so-called apostles of Christ were mainly fishermen and they would have been illiterate and, therefore, unable to write as suggested.
The Book of Matthew The Book of Matthew is one that tells the most about its author.
He was obviously highly educated, knew the laws of the Catholic Church, had knowledge of that region of the world and he was familiar with the Indian religion or had studied from someone who had.
A Book to Match the Religion Jerome fits all that criteria and he was asked by the Bishop of Rome towards the end of the 4th CAD to compile a book to bring credibility to the fledgling church.
He also introduced the laws by which it operates, set the calendar and festivals, costumes and the order of Mass.
This ws done by borrowing these things from the Imperial Romans Religion.
He then changed the language of the Church to Latin.
These actions are all recorded in his diary, letters and in Vatican Archives.
Jerome's diary is available in the National Library where my perusal of it helped me to understand how he put together the full version of the bible that he called the Vulgate.
Prior to that time Eusebius, a cohort of Constantine in the formation of the Church, had produced a primitive version of the work but failed to complete it because he did not have enough knowledge to translate the Septuagint to add to it.
Plato and Christianity Jerome, on the other hand, had knowledge of several languages and he was a student of Plato.
he copied the Septuagint from Greek and admits to having changed parts of it and added to it to make it align with the New Testament.
He called the Old Testament to make it look like God had changed in both mind and intentions.
Plato had proposed a Trinity Godhead after the style of the Vedic Trinity.
He had also figured the soul (sol) to be a shadow on which sins could be housed and then read by God after death.
Jerome kept the notion of the soul in his book.
No Christians Prior to Constantine The Council of Nicaea failed to get the gist of how such a being would work.
It has been a contentious issue ever since.
Plato had also used the term Christian, derived from Krishna, some seven hundred years earlier.
That allows that there was no persecution of Christians as has been widely proposed by the Church.
It is on public record that no Christians were ever put to death in the Colosseum.
In fact, there were no Christians, as such, prior to Constantine establishing his religion.
Persecution of Unwilling Worshipers Constantine, however, persecuted people who refused to worship the cross or the Christ that he put on it.
He gave the bishops authority to kill dissenters and the Book of Revelation 13:14-18 nominates him as the man with the number 666.
The purpose of the religion he founded and of the work of Jerome later that century was to alter the nature of God from Spirit to man.
The conflict between the two books of the bible and the other things mentioned make it a highly suspicious document.