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. One of the reasons why one should hesitate before accpting what "the majority of New testament scholars believe". false That lumps in all NT scholars together with your personal poor methodology. If one is hired to teach apologetics, and one doesn't, one finds himself in hot water. Ther...

What, in your judgment, makes all those many scholarships so credible? Because many have withstood criticism over many many decades. While those who claim Paul as myth have not. Your claim is a fallacy. The Pauline Corpus was not composed before c 70 CE. The author of Acts knew nothing of the Pauli...

WE were talking about this at RF. Sort of a Joke really The movement prospered in the diaspora for Roman citizens, gentiles, and Proselytes. It never did well in Galilee if that was its intended target. Had it been targeted at Galilean Jews the works would have been written in Aramaic or Hebrew, not...

dewitness wrote:Sources of fiction and forgery are useless to determine historical accounts so their supposed independence is not even relevant.

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Unless you can support your pet hypothesis, you should not be posting it.

What, in your judgment, makes all those many scholarships so credible? Because many have withstood criticism over many many decades. While those who claim Paul as myth have not. Do you think it possible that if someone's pet project is just to find the truth, they could nevertheless disagree with a...

Anyone know late-date advocates for the gospels? There are a few. None with credibility though. You start opening up a can of worms when dating late, to many credible scholarships are just thrown out the window for these very small pet projects. Most of what I see are those with personal agendas th...

dewitness wrote:
It is just highly absurd, completely unacceptable, that the very same discredited source, the NT, is being used by Ehrman as an independent historical source.

Do you think the whole NT is 100% fiction with zero historical value?

Can anyone quote/reference scholars that comment on the historicity of these predictions? Do they really go back to Jesus? Why would Jesus give a prediction of the temple's destruction? Also, I'm interested in any possible non-supernatural explanations for the reported predictions. (e.g. they were ...

With the social unrest under oppression, and the Romans skill of bleeding these stubborn reliliant people dry, temple destruction was inevitable. Why? Even if the Roman attack on the Jews was inevitable, why couldn't the Romans keep the temple and use it for pagan worship? The only reason the Roman...

Thanks Stephan

Glad your here.