Its the other way around actually. People assume that the gospel were written by 80 years after Jesus SO THEY COULD CLAIM oral tradition. So they have to clai

Its the other way around actually. People assume that the gospel were written by 80 years after Jesus SO THEY COULD CLAIM oral tradition. So they have to claim that, because otherwise their claim of 'oral' tradition falls apart even harder. However, funny enough nobody seems to quote this oral tradition as evidence anywhere. Most of the church fathers arguing with each other in the 100-150 period never bring up this oral tradition or quote from the 'Q' source or the gospels. We have plenty of text from 100-170 period but somehow the actual supposed words from Jesus himself doesn't seem to interest people very much.