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The Tale Wagging The Dogma. Which "Mark" Wrote GMark? A Dear John Letter The Marks Brothers (of the Lord) In my Thread here: Jesus SportsGospel Line in the Sands-Odds that GMark post 70 proponents of pre 70 are having [understatement]a difficult time [/understatement] trying to articulate...

Mark "I Am IronyMan". How Much Ironic Contrast, Transfer and Reversal Did He kraM? The purpose of this Thread will be to explore the use of irony in GMarK. I have faith that I became the foremost authority the world has ever known on the use of irony in GMark some time ago. The offending ...

Today I got the question: "I've been told that Justin and Tertullian both refer their readers to the official records in Rome regarding the census that is mentioned in Luke. I was wondering how I could go about searching your site to find those references?" So I pulled up a few of these r...

The assumptions that atheist make about dates and times are totally wrong. Gospels written 60-100 years after the events that nothing was written about Jesus story before mark subsuming mark into Matthew somehow negates mark as an early source. all of that is wrong. The Jesus story existed in writi...

Among the supposed false predictions, by Jesus, of the end of the world within the lifetime of his followers is the interesting prediction (Matthew 21 paralleled in Mark 12 and Luke 20) that "the husbandmen" of the vineyard would be "miserably destroyed" for their wickedness and...

Why did the Acts Seminar conclude that Acts was written in the second century, if it's "impossible" for it to date after 61? I can't speak for the Acts Seminar, but it's likely wrong. Acts is a good example of diary-form writing. Luke likely wrote the book as events happened (over a perio...

what does jewish law in antiquity say about identifying dead bodies after a few days? Nothing. Jewish law existed in two forms: 1--Moses' written law 2--Moses' oral law (not written, and hence not preserved) You may be able to find some discussions in the Talmud about the handling of bodies for var...

Hi all, I've been writing up a chapter on Genesis' 2 creation myths and posting sections of it over at my blog... looking for some feedback. It's intended to be ... well I know you've heard this before, a book demonstrating textually that the claims of Creationists are not only counter to science, ...

The flood is clearly a global event. The only way one can argue against a universal deluge is to ignore the actual story. Not quite. 1) Modern words, and the ideas they invoke, such as "global" and "universal" are absent in the worldview of the ancient Hebrews who penned these t...

Is it true? http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0006_0_05937.html No. The Roman Senate had a long-standing legislative authority to declare the titles of the emperor, not Herod. The apparent adoration of Herod for Augustus only began after Herod's apparent adoration of Mar...