For anyone who actually read the Bible....

[zeemike]

65. I have heard that all before.

In fact every time I hear this topic discussed...and I say the same thing back...that is your theory not fact, but they always present it as if it were indisputable fact.
You do not know that Mark did not write it, and you do not know that he edited it, and yo do not know any of those things you present as if it were fact...like this statement.
"None of the Gospel writers had any direct contact with Jesus"
You have no way to know that...

But I guess this is not a science at all, because no scientist would make such a statement based on such scant evidence and claim a negative as a certainty.
And BTW, there is other writings that you probably do not know about...Look up Saint Issa...a text found in a Tibetan monastery about Jesus who came their to learn and study in his missing 20 years of his life in the bible...but again, of course they just made it up...because once scholars have reached a conclusion like that, they must dismiss all evidence to the contrary as myth...