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by Mental flatliner
Sun May 18, 2014 6:10 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: FINALLY! The correct answer has been posted...
Replies: 75
Views: 66233

Re: FINALLY! Anyone else have an answer?

Perhaps, I should have used the term folk tales rather than fairy tales. You don't have a basis for calling them folk tales. So why would you say it? How are you so threatened by events of 2000 years ago that you must micharacterize them? The gospels are original historical texts whether you want t...
by Mental flatliner
Sun May 18, 2014 6:05 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Luke's sources
Replies: 174
Views: 112925

Re: Luke's source for the angel from heaven

I misquoted nothing, Mental flatliner. Here's my suggestion. If you want to prove that you value actual discussion, you have 24 hours to show how you identified Luke's sources and named them. If you don't do that, you will be banned. Have a nice day. Yes, you actually did. You edited the quote and ...
by Mental flatliner
Sun May 18, 2014 5:59 pm
Forum: Jewish Texts and History
Topic: Genesis 1 & 2
Replies: 126
Views: 131082

Re: Genesis 1 & 2

And one more question: Is 'bbl' also an anachronism in all the other OT writings that use it for Babylon? Or were they maybe also written before the time of Akkadian dominance? You really don't know what an anachronism is, do you? What are you going to do when I tell you how many other Hebrew words...
by Mental flatliner
Sun May 18, 2014 5:52 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: FINALLY! The correct answer has been posted...
Replies: 75
Views: 66233

Re: FINALLY! The correct answer has been posted...

Wikipedia isn't a source. You can follow the links on the wiki pages, but the major source is Josephus: I don't follow links, and I don't use Wiki. You either have legitimate sources or you don't. If you don't understand your own links well enough to explain them in your own words, I won't waste my...
by Mental flatliner
Sun May 18, 2014 5:45 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Loaves and Fishes
Replies: 322
Views: 234971

Re: Loaves and Fishes

The Crow wrote: Mark 14:13 And He sent forth two of His disciples and said unto them, “Go ye into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water; follow him.

Reading your post the last few days I am sure you are not going to buy this but I thought what the hell.
Yeah...
by Mental flatliner
Sun May 18, 2014 5:33 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: FINALLY! The correct answer has been posted...
Replies: 75
Views: 66233

Re: FINALLY! The correct answer has been posted...

The authorities needed the means of verifying that everyone paid the tax. This requires the creation of tax rolls to account for each person. Whether they have to travel or not is irrelevant. It's not like they're going to have to return to their homeland each year as they would if this were an ann...
by Mental flatliner
Sun May 18, 2014 5:24 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Luke's sources
Replies: 174
Views: 112925

Re: Re:I stuck my toe in and got bitten, serves me right.

@Mental flatliner, Clearly I misunderstood what you meant by 'open challenge'. What you really meant was a limited narrowly defined challenge to a specific person and not an open challenge to anyone else on the forum. I got that now. Sorry about that. Still, does that mean you don't know the source...
by Mental flatliner
Sun May 18, 2014 5:19 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: FINALLY! The correct answer has been posted...
Replies: 75
Views: 66233

Re: FINALLY! The correct answer has been posted...

Judea was never under his jurisdiction and he never imposed a census or tax there There was no Roman census in Judea until 6 CE. That's a fact. If Luke thought otherwise, Luke was wrong. Luke was wrong about a lot of things. That's not remarkable. Each of these statements was simply made up on the ...
by Mental flatliner
Sun May 18, 2014 5:17 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: FINALLY! The correct answer has been posted...
Replies: 75
Views: 66233

Re: FINALLY! The correct answer has been posted...

Not plausible? Collection of names is not plausible? Collection of taxes based on a list of names is not plausible? Are you kidding? No, are you kidding me? Why would you collect a list of names of people who live and pay taxes in a different province? As long as you're thinking about this from str...
by Mental flatliner
Sun May 18, 2014 5:04 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Metacrock is still apologizing...
Replies: 252
Views: 152803

Re: Metacrock is still apologizing...

you don't know the difference in argument from authority and using a qualified expert. I've found that most of the people in this forum pick and choose their own experts and pretend there aren't any others. As far as I know, there's no name for this kind of logical fallacy, but the selectivity of c...