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>There used to be many different versions of the gospels, although most of them appear to be earlier or later variations of the four canonical gospels we have in the Bible. Each of the four gospels was not written by one specific author but rather is a reposit of conflicting narratives that have been edited together and harmonized to smooth over the edges of voluminous number of revisions from centuries of interdenominational conflict. What would become modern Christian theology was only one of many second century CE Jesus sects that were co-evolving with one another, largely by the memetic selection of holy texts, first by how particular verses were combined in each sect's particular gospel, but with time graduating to how particular books were combined into each sect's particular canon. The irony of the Synoptic Problem is that the Four Source and Griesbach Hypothesis both turned out to be correct in their own ways. The construction of the gospels involved what was probably one of the most complex games of Telephone ever played
