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Explain why the authors at times differ from each other in their accounts.
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The authors were speaking to different audiences and emphasizing different aspects of Jesus.
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They were four separate people writing from four perspectives and to four different audiences about Jesus.
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The four authors are different people. They wrote with different backgrounds, different perspectives, different audiences, different agendas. They did not consult one another to make 1 gospel. God used exactly who, what, when, and where the authors were to provide future generations with accounts of Jesus from different walks of life.
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The are written by different people with different backgrounds and different viewpoints. The books address different situations and problems and were written for different purposes. They are not contradictory although they may give us different viewpoints of the same situation sometimes. As we weld these accounts together we a more complete picture under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
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Because they had different perspectives and audiences.
