I think that we will be very surprised when and if we ever find out. I wouldn't be surprised if it is someone quite famous. Any guesses? My gut feeling is that it is someone who is supposed to be "dead":
JFK jr Tom Clancy (My No 1 choice) John McAfee
Any thoughts?
yes that's what many people say. which is odd, because it is simply the words of Jesus🤔 I've read it quite a few times, and to me it seems like a code/to identify the important words of Jesus without directly telling us to read it.
but perhaps I'm wrong...will consider your reply next time I read it.
Not sure what you mean when you say "I've read it quite a few times"? There is no "Gospel of Q", it's just a hypothesis. No actual manuscript exists.
yes, it's simple to read.
just get your Bible & read the common material between Matthew and Luke, that's all it is. not sure why people are bothered by the idea...
and they wouldn't have needed an 'original written source'
that defeats the purpose...it was 'inspired' and the Q source proves that more than one received the message...it's like a code.
and for those who don't recognize the commonalities, there are plenty of sites that have the list of the verses. the International Q Project has been analyzing the material for a long time.
https://www.christianbook.com/sayings-gospel-english-parallels-gospels-thomas/9780800634940/pd/34941
http://earlychristianwritings.com/q.html
Yes, right, that's the "synoptic" part of the synoptic gospels. It's what made the biblical "scholars" of the 1800s think the gospels were fake--as if they were the first people after 1800 years to notice that there were commonalities in the first three gospels.
But there is no "Q manuscript".
It's simply a made-up hypothesis that the gospel writers were plagiarizing things from some Quelle.
To take a very simple example: look at Trump's rallies. There is a lot of common material there, because he is making certain points over and over again to different audiences. He does "the snake" over and over again, for example It would be nonsense to argue, years from now, that there was only ever ONE Trump rally, and all the other supposed rallies were really fakes, with people's recollections/writings about them made up from one single "source rally".
But that's exactly the "Quelle" hypothesis.
They leave out that Jesus was constantly making speeches, constantly trying to drive the same points home. Jesus healed many people, some of them so spectacularly that they became legend and stories of them were repeated by many people.
But to hypothesize, as the 19th century biblical scholars did, that the three synoptic gospels were later examples of plagiarism (rather than many people's memories of life-changing encounters) is completely anti-Christian.
yeah I'm not sure why SO many people want to 'debunk' the Q-Source...
especially on a Q board??
how many 'coincidences'...remember.
also the Jefferson Bible has similar content to the Q-Source and JFK was a fan of Jefferson.
AND if you've read the Q-drops...JFK is a HUGE part of Q's plan.
so yes, you can explain this to me a hundred times on WHY I'm 'wrong', but that is not what my reply was about...
the question was; who do we think Q is?
AND I think that Q is God/Jesus/Source
so the FACT that there is a 'HYPOTHETICAL' book ABOUT JESUS & NAMED Q, is the perfect sign/symbol for me.