No, but I'd say that our documentation ability, during Einstein's life, was significantly improved over Jesus' time. It's also safe to say that Einstein actually wrote a lot that is attributed to him. To my knowledge, Jesus wrote nothing. Finally, at least some of the people who wrote about Einstein probably actually met him.
"Finally, at least some of the people who wrote about Einstein probably actually met him."
No. None of the Gospels were written by the people they are named for and all were written 3 or more decades after his death. Most of the NT is by unknown authors . 6 of the 13 books Paul supposedly wrote are questionable as well.
I'm pretty sure the consensus is that none of the gospels were written by people who met Jesus. Mark was written the earliest, and it was written 30+ years after Jesus died. The author may have spoken with primary sources and witnesses who knew Jesus, but I don't think there's any widespread belief that he was an eyewitness or met Jesus himself. (Leaving aside that the point of Mark and the other gospels was not necessarily to recount accurate historical facts about Jesus.)
That is not known. Many accounts say otherwise.
Not by virtually anyone whose whole sense of self isn't subsumed by their religion. Scholars who study the language and style, essentially a forensic literary analysis, all think that the none of the books were written while Jesus was alive and generally years after. Paul is an exception although he's a fraud that never met Jesus anyway.
By saying Paul was a fraud shows your agenda in this discussion therefore nullifies anymore discussions on this topic by me.
I say it because Paul never met Jesus. Virtually every other important figure from John the Baptist to Jesus is prophesied. Yet Jesus said this.
You don’t actually think the gospels were authored by eyewitnesses do you?
If true, where did the Prosperity Bible come from?
Jerry Falwell?
At least as far back as Oral Roberts.
I grew up in a predominantly Irish/Italian/Eastern European and so Catholic area of the country and never heard of any of this stuff (prosperity Bible. Inerrant interpretations of the bible, literal) until I moved to NC for school. Shocked to find that some believe it is inerrant. Heard one argue against using the new testament in Greek as God intended the English speaking world to only consider the English version including ministrations and phrases from Shakespeare that were added
Actually I was using the description I remembered of Jesus from Reva Asian’s book Zealot which I read about a decade ago.