Just stumbled across this website. It’s about a documentary which questions the origins of Christianity. I watched a clip which talked about how the gospels were written. I noticed one factual error, which was that the narrator stated that Mark was the earliest Gospel and that the other three were clearly derived from it. This is not true: the first three are clearly related in some way, either because two of them were copied from another, or that all three drew on an unknown source (called “Q”) now lost. The fourth Gospel, John, is completely separate and was written independently. This is the first thing anyone learns when they begin to study the New Testament.

Now, I’ve not been in Church for about four months, and I don’t really know if I could call myself a Christian any more (at the least I’m questioning it), but it irritated me that a basic thing like this was left uncorrected.

It seemed that the documentary was designed to shock, which is always a shame because it doesn’t lend it very much credibility, especially when basic errors like that above have been made.

Links:

• The clip I saw
• The Movie’s website