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Bernard wrote:There is no evidence, that at any times in his apostolic life, Paul was preaching the same message than the others.

Gal 1:14 implies agreement on a true Gospel.

. wrt oral tradition - …We cannot assume that the testimony of two different informants from the same community or even society is really independent. This is very important. In history, proof is given only when two independent sources confirm the same event or situation, but … it is not possible t...

In the Gospel of Mary, your first example, while the Saviour figure they talk to is post-resurrection, it implies that there was a pre-resurrection Jesus on earth as well, i.e. "But they [the apostles] were distressed and wept greatly. "How are we going to go out to the rest of the world ...

Hi cienfuegos, how do you deal with Gal. 1:18, where Paul (assuming it's by Paul) says, "Three years after that [i.e. his return to Damascus from Arabia] I went up to Jerusalem to get to know Cephas, with whom I stayed fifteen days" (NAB). Assuming that Cephas = Simon Peter = Jesus' main ...

If the idea is that Paul learned details of the historical Jesus from the "pillars" James, Peter and John during those two weeks in Jerusalem then we have a problem with the evidence. As Kurt Noll himself has pointed out, the evidence we have is that what Paul himself taught is what was a...

I am mostly addressing the Gospels. Some of the epistles attributed to Paul may be authentic first hand writings. However, anything he says about Jesus is second-hand and even beyond that, he himself claims that he didn't even learn about Jesus from other people, but from Jesus, who by that time ha...

However, anything he says about Jesus is second-hand and even beyond that, he himself claims that he didn't even learn about Jesus from other people, but from Jesus, who by that time had passed, himself. Hi cienfuegos, how do you deal with Gal. 1:18, where Paul (assuming it's by Paul) says, "T...

Thought I'd resurrect this thread because there are folks on here who weren't active when it was posted. Many of our discussions have to do with methodology. Matthew Ferguson's proposed criteria for weighing sources in ancient history seem a good point of departure. Here is the link to Ferguson's b...

1. distance from the event to the record. on rapid growth of myths, he cites Kris Komarnitsky on A.N. Sherwin-White’s two generation rule for the historical core to be erased: http://bibleinterp.com/articles/2013/kom378030.shtml 2. first-hand vs. second-hand accounts If we have a 'first hand accoun...

^If you agree that Caesar Augustus existed, and you agree that the NT attests to the existence of Caesar Augustus, then you agree with outhouse's statement that "The NT is factually not devoid of historical data". Some of you guys are so quick to pounce on everything without actually comp...