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This statement is simply false, they don't. Do any of you actually read the gospels or are you so engrossed with your own denials that it has become an alternate reality? How many times do I have to quote the gospels where they claim their own authority? (And how many times will you use a unibrow r...

Your response is to attack critics who come from that perspective. This is the only response I've gotten from anyone in this forum save a very few. Sorry, it just struck me as funny that you seem to have not noticed this is the modus operandi of this forum. You guys are doing nothing but conducting...

How do you know the gospels are first century sources? (I am not denying they are -- I am asking you how YOU know they are.) Is it because someone told you want to think? If not, how do you know? I treat all historical sources equally: they are exactly as their authors intended until proven otherwi...

spin wrote:
When you can give one, do so.

Name the event.

I'm ready when you are.

"The exodus from Egypt is unknown to history save what is written in the Hebrew Bible. Outside of the most meager of circumstantial evidence we possess nothing to substantiate the text." This is a false claim. I have evidence for several dozen events before, during and after the Exodus de...

Kris wrote:The date of the oldest manuscripts.

In that case, if you find something among the Dead Sea Scrolls, you have to conclude they predate 70 AD.

Typical stupidity from you. The text speaks of a fourfold gospel likened to the corners of the world which Voorbus links to Irenaeus and you claim that's going too far. I don't bother to engage you in the other forums but now you're encroaching in my space. For those with interest I found Nau's 190...

First of all, the gospels are not 1st century artifacts. This is an affirmative claim for which you (obviously) have a burden of evidence. Given your weaknesses, I won't burden you with asking. You disregard all such requests. But I will say that the gospels claim to be 1st century products, and th...

The first one, Enki and Ninḫursaĝa, isn't that much like Genesis 2-3. Enki figures in a Sumerian myth which is a parallel to the Hebrew story of Adam and the Garden of Eden. In paradisal Dilmun, now identified with Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, the water god lived with Ninhursaga; it was a happy pla...

Your first clue should have been the overt bias in the act of "debunking". Historians who show bias are not qualified to analyze and write histories, much less debunk anything. As a reader, if you had any level of education beyond 9th grade, you'd have noticed the bias and questioned the ...