Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

to hakeem, It is completely illogical to expect that a person who "met" the supposed Jesus after he was dead and while he [Saul/Paul] was blind to write anything at all about his life. You are referring to a passage in Acts. So I'll use Acts also and I see: 9:8 And Saul arose from the eart...

to hakeem, In order for the Pauline writers to appear authoritative they had to falsely claim they had revelation from the resurrected Jesus. In order for the Pauline writers Paul to appear authoritative they he had to falsely claim they he had revelation from the resurrected Jesus. We now know that...

to rgprice, Almost everything in the New Testament is reactionary to Marcion. That's because you make Marcion's corpus THE REFERENCE. However, there is evidence a lot was written before Marcion, including gMark, gLuke and Paul's epistles. About gMark: http://historical-jesus.info/41.html About gLuke...

The reasons why Paul did not provide details about the life of Jesus are: 1) He never had been an eyewitness of human Jesus. 2) The inquisitive Christians of Corinth were previously informed about a wordly description of human Jesus (probably by Peter during his visit to Corinth): http://historical-...

to hakeem, if Justin knew of Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Acts of the Apostles and Pauline Epistles he would have identified them by name as his sources The gospels were not attributed authors in the time of Justin. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles/ : The...

to Hakeem, 3. In Justin's Memoirs of the Apostles the baby Jesus was born in a cave and laid in a manger. No evidence for that. In Dialogue 78:5, Justin mentioned gospels and gospel and a cave in Bethlehem, but not Memoirs of the apostles. And Ben told us the cave was imagined from Isaiah by Justin:...

to hakeem, It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for Pliny, a supposed Magistrate, to claim he does not even know what offenses to investigate or punish after having executed Christians. A magistrate who never participated in trials of Christians and never had to deal before of a Christian "p...

to hakeem, after the prophecy of Micah and after the history recorded in the Gospels by the disciples of Jesus, to have additional evidence from other sources, The evidence from other sources is additional of what shows in the gospels. in conformity with the narrative in the Gospel regarding His bir...

to hakeem, It makes no sense whatsoever for Pliny to have executed Christians if he did know what punishment they deserved and then to torture non-Christians who cursed Christ and worship the statue of Trajan to find out what Christians believed up to 25 years earlier. That's expeditive Roman justic...

to hakeem, If Pliny did not how to punish Christians then why did he execute those who confessed they were Christians? Pliny had already executed Christians before the letter was written. Well, Trajan was not a phone call away. Communications between Trajan and Pliny on his road trip would take week...