The gospels were dictated to someone who physically wrote the words down…
Oh wait, no I see the problem. Yeah at some point early scholars did get the timeline wrong and thought that the gospels were written 60 rather than 30 years after the death of Jesus. But there are TONS of holes in that theory - e.g. why not mention that the Jewish Temple had been torn down, which is like the largest event for them for thousands of years? I thought that this has been more or less universally debunked, but I could not swear to that especially for it to have permeated throughout the entire world.
Most scholars agree that they are the work of unknown Christians[49] and were composed c.65-110 AD.[50]
While in the very next sentence also debunking my claim that they are first-hand accounts:
The majority of New Testament scholars also agree that the Gospels do not contain eyewitness accounts;[51] but that they present the theologies of their communities rather than the testimony of eyewitnesses.[52][53]
So if we use that article as a surrogate for “world-wide consensus”, then it sounds like we both need to read up on our knowledge of this theology:-D. I for one am fascinated - does this mean that those “first-hand accounts” were merely written in the style of a first-hand account, but also including someone in the community who really was there (they would have been about 60 years old at that point?) - at which point, what is the difference, really? - or… maybe the people were older & feeble (in their 70s?), so merely the result of prior conversations with them over the course of a few years?