Was Bishop Pococke full of Pococke?

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Solstice
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Re: Was Bishop Pococke full of Pococke?

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It would be more likely that later Christians, trying to find some secret meaning in what Luke had written would distort the Hebrew scriptures in this absurd fashion.

Would Polycarp have done such a thing? (distort the scriptures to come up with some secret meaning for the purpose of evangelizing)
PhilosopherJay
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Re: Was Bishop Pococke full of Pococke?

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Hi Solstice,

What is the relationship of Polycarp to the book of Daniel prophesy?

Warmly,

Jay Raskin
Solstice wrote:It would be more likely that later Christians, trying to find some secret meaning in what Luke had written would distort the Hebrew scriptures in this absurd fashion.

Would Polycarp have done such a thing? (distort the scriptures to come up with some secret meaning for the purpose of evangelizing)
Solstice
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Re: Was Bishop Pococke full of Pococke?

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Jay, first let me say that the earlier post which laid out the various forms of historical time measurement was great. That post is like a mini history lesson the subject.


Daniel was making a prediction about what would happen in seventy weeks or 490 days later. One has to arbitrarily change the prediction to years. Nobody in ancient times or our times for that matter makes predictions for hundreds of years into the future.

IMHO, it does NOT matter about the intentions of the author(s) of Daniel/Ezra or that they weren't looking ahead hundreds of years. What matters is that the NT writers of early Christianity were evangelists who were trying to grow their church in the face of competition from other faiths & churches. They were the Joel Osteen's and Rick Warren's of their day. They took the words of the scriptures and "interpreted" them to whatever they needed to sell their church.

You can see the pattern of taking scripture to "prove" Jesus as the foretold messiah here where Price explains the gospels as Midrash:
http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/art_midrash1.htm


What is the relationship of Polycarp to the book of Daniel prophesy?

Here's two posts where Price, Troblisch and others (including and Huller) endorse Polycarp as the writer of Acts:
http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/ ... _first.htm
http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/ ... arcion.htm
(the recent Westar Acts Seminar also discussed Polycarp too)

Now, if we generally agree on a connection between the author of Luke and Acts, then we can infer that Polycarp had a hand in Luke?

If so, would Polycarp have an agenda to make the Ezra/Daniel thing into a prophecy about Jesus?
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