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Originally Posted by ute4ever
I don't mean to sound cheeky, but I don't understand why this would lead anyone to believe that the books were not written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John. They are four different people, each with a different perspective, who I assume were familiar with what had been written previously, and sought to add to that. For example, my dad, my brother, my daughter, and my BFF would each give a different account of who I am and what I did with my life.
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In none of them does the author ever mention himself by name, so then we're left with believing the tradition or not. The tradition could be wrong. After all, there was plenty of fraudulent stuff written and assigned an author's name for the purpose of giving it credibility. It doesn't matter much to me who the actual authors were, nor that the accounts differ. If I were a literalist evangelical who believed in biblical infallibility then it would make a difference. It shouldn't matter to LDS however.