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Question: Is it correct that the 12 apostles of Jesus were not the same people whom wrote the Gospels?

A minister taught me this in a class about Christianity. I learned that the Gospels were written at least 60+ years after the death of Jesus by people using pseudonyms. So the original apostles were not the authors. A lot of people think that Paul of Tarsus also was an apostle, which he was not, he never even met Jesus (other than in a vision on the road to Damascus). So in actuality, the Bible was written by people who most likely never saw Jesus. What do you guys think about this?

I have a lot of love for Christians, so I hope no one considers this an attack. I am just curious if most Christians were aware of Bible history. Scholars know that there is a common unfound source that the original Gospels use, but the the Gospel of John did not use this source, and was more a revision of the original 3.

Answer: Yup. It was common during that time to write something and name it after someone important.
So there is author by tradition, author/sources by conjecture and conjectured editor.
Scholars on the subject have come up with various hypothesis for the gospels and the rest of the bible. Q source are sayings of Jesus that are common to both Matthew's and Luke's gospel; most scholars believe that both authors used a common "sayings" gospel, similar to the Gospel of Thomas, which is now lost; other scholars believe that Luke simply copied the sayings he liked out of the Gospel of Matthew

I'll give you a link to an interesting chart of biblical writers.

http://www.lost-history.com/authors.php

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