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John T wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 5:03 pm Now I will try explain why Acts was written in the early 60's CE.

I hope that your argument involves more than appealing to the fact that Paul is still alive at the end.

That's what hateful right-wing evangelicals do, they associate Evil with left-wing - because their "Christianity" is not settled in faith that comes from love, but in politics that come from "religion" So, you are saying all pagan worshipers are right-wing? Emperors like Nero wh...

John T wrote: ↑Fri Aug 05, 2022 5:16 pm It was done not by Christians but rather by left-wing pagan worshipers.

Why call them left-wing?

Theophilus had been the "most excellent" high priest in 40-41 AD when the Gospel of Luke was written. His son Matthias was high priest around 61 AD, Theophilus was alive, and that would be a sensible date for Acts. 1. Why should we assume that GLuke was written in 41 CE? 2. Why should we ...

Or maybe Epaphroditus and Josephus didn't know exactly how and when Paul died. Did anyone know for sure? Epaphroditus (secretary to Nero) would have certainly known. Epaphroditus did not die until 95 CE, that is, 26 years after he helped Nero commit suicide. Yet, strangely, Josephus tells us about ...

No. Why would it be, in this context?

Though I am not currently accepting homework assignments from Mr. Godfrey, I have commented on the Berossus and Manetho book, including at amazon. Mr. Gmirkin fancifully assigned homework to Hebrew Bible authors, a fictional syllabus of Greek texts for his imaginary Alexandria c. 273-272 crash cour...

I was not being passive-aggressive as far as I am aware, and my words were not nonsense.

Some translations, though, are so easy that they cannot be questioned by anyone with even basic understanding of the languages.

Theophilus had been the "most excellent" high priest in 40-41 AD when the Gospel of Luke was written. His son Matthias was high priest around 61 AD, Theophilus was alive, and that would be a sensible date for Acts. 1. Why should we assume that GLuke was written in 41 CE? 2. Why should we ...