Biblical Criticism & History Forum - earlywritings.com

Looks plausibly fictional to me, and to many others who do not believe in your Christian HOLY BIBLE'S beloved religious fictions. Brother, you only belittle yourself trying to posit a stance that does not differentiate apologetics and credible historical work. There is no 'credible historical work'...

A rather different tangent than the question of whether your Christian BIBLE storybook 'Paul' ever hunted down any Christians. . No its not different. If Paul existed when stated, and wrote about the early movement, there is no good or credible reason to discount his persecution of the movement and...

A rather different tangent than the question of whether your Christian BIBLE storybook 'Paul' ever hunted down any Christians.
There is not one bit of credible history evidencing that any of the Christian contrived crap presented in this 'Paul' story has any basis in fact or history.

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"MY BIBLE says it, I believe it, and that settles it!" "MY BIBLE says; "Yada yada yada....yada!" Now YOU have to prove that this did not take place just as MY HOLY BIBLE says it did!" Gee, now wherever did I hear that kind of reasoning before? ;) You know better. You a...

"MY BIBLE says it, I believe it, and that settles it!"

"MY BIBLE says; "Yada yada yada....yada!" Now YOU have to prove that this did not take place just as MY HOLY BIBLE says it did!"

Gee, now wherever did I hear that kind of reasoning before?

it's the lack of reference exactly where one would expect to find it: where Paul is giving a ruling on a point which according to the Gospels was already, earlier, supposed to have been ruled upon by Jesus. This tilts the balance toward a need for an explanation. Exactly. In all the many instances ...

This would suggest that Mark did not manage to include all of the material with historical origins No possibility that the author(s) of 'Luke' added some traditions that 'Mark' omitted ....or had never even heard of ? No possibility that the author(s) of 'Luke' may have employed a bit more 'creativ...

I'll add here, that the initial Greek NT texts may have (none have ever been found) employed the proper terminology, the subsequent substitution of nomina sacra leading to the omission of the direct object indicator 'the' when in the 3rd century CE the full spelling out of (a form of) the name and o...

Is there an assumption that Christ and Messiah are the same word in Greek and Hebrew so they are assumed to be interchangeable when actually they are not? Its really not a simple matter. When translating Hebrew text into the Greek language, it is perfectly proper and acceptable to employ the Greek ...

While the text of Deut 18:18-19 refers directly to the Prophet at hand " Ἰησοῦς , the son of Nun", it was long conceived among Hellenistic LXX Bible scholars that this " Ἰησοῦς " ('Joshua' <sic> 'Jesus') was only a 'TYPE' and a forerunner of that " Ἰησοῦς the Χριστός >"...