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Why can't 1 Peter have been written by Silvanus? The text is sort of ambiguous but if Silvanus did write what Peter dictated I don't see why Peter couldn't be the author. I'm not as knowledgeable as you guys but the letter is well attested externally. I don't care if I'm a "clown scholar" ...

Yeah when apologists try to make their case by quoting works in the Bible regarded as forgery it's always a head-scratcher lol. I can tell I'm a lot more conservative than the other guys here so that might explain why you thought that xD. Anyways, I do think 1 Peter is probably authentic so he has g...

Maybe the first heaven is the atmosphere, second is all of outer space, third is heaven. BOOM biblical hermeneutics complete.

Wow...lol. Never knew the Christians did that when they gained power. What assholes.

2 Peter is a forgery.

We have plenty of proto-Catholic writers attacking "heresies" all over the place well before 380. Where is the mythcists denomination? Exactly, they don't make an appearance. Also I'd like to add that appealing to a conspiracy is never going to make a good argument.

And why should we doubt those later Christians? What makes you think we should distrust this strong tradition of James the BROTHER of Jesus and bishop of Jerusalem?

I am no fan of Carrier I think he is a whiny $^#& and annoying as hell, but Evans did nothing but appeal to census the whole time. This is exactly what you get when the debater(Evans) does not read his opponents work or study it at all(Carrier). I'm sure Evans thought that Carrier would be about...

What was Paul's cosmology? Did he think that there was 3 heavens? More?

... the 'bishop of Jerusalem' was consistently associated with as Jesus's brother ... That James was actually Jesus's brother and was a 'bishop of Jerusalem' as all extant history tells us? What evidence is there that Christianity was developed and structured enough to have bishops, & other rol...