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Consider the history of events in Roman Britain after the death of Theodosius I in 396 AD. Our best source is Zosimus, living in Constantinople in the early 6th century, well over a century later, writing in Greek, and in a world in which the western empire had ceased to exist in any sense 50 years...

Another point of contact between the Pauline letters and the pre-70 AD period occurs in 2 Cor 12:31-33, which has the passage about Paul being let down in a basket through a window in the wall to escape the "ethnarch under King Aretas," the last known Nabatean king by this name having died...

what you write in 2013 ... what Victorinus wrote 1600 years ago The author is not important; the argument is. the statements of Christian writers in antiquity ... is extremely important The blithering, blathering, and blustering you make out of selective patristic citation is most laughable. It is ...

"doctrinally vital notion that their founder [Marcion] lived" Doctrinally vital to whom? To those whose interpretation of a 2nd century Christianity depended on the Marcionites having had a gospel and the so-called Paulist epistles before orthodox Christianity developed their own canon. T...

Since at least 1600 years ago, a Christian writer admitted Once again, balderdash! A third century Christian writer evinces Christian views in the third century. He cannot "admit" anything regarding a text written in the first century because he has no direct access to knowledge regarding...

In Revelation the author always means Babylon when he says Babylon. Rome is of no particular interest to the author; Rome being only one of the many kingdoms corrupted by "the mother of the harlots and of the abominations of the earth.” Impossible and completely alien to any remotely accurate ...

No, I'm thinking that the site of the former ziggurat, which is now a depression, was once a hill. Completely irrelevant. The ancient audience had access neither to your speculation about this site nor to the catalogue of archaeological mounds in a British encyclopedia. More to the point, as Bernar...

Blood wrote:If there's one thing we can be sure about, it's that we cannot be sure about anything in Revelation.

Utter nonsense.

"doctrinally vital notion that their founder [Marcion] lived"

Doctrinally vital to whom?

Blood wrote:... how many scholars ...

Scholars are irrelevant. Only evidence matters.