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Two points: 1. Hakeem seems to rule out the possibility of the miraculous. That is not scientifically tenable. We cannot say that we know all the "laws of nature." How can one possibly know that the miraculous or extraordinary cannot occur? Life out of dead matter is a miracle; consciousn...

hakeem -- With all due respect to you, I believe you are making major Category Errors in your analysis. Your statement concerning "...stories of Jesus ..." is false on the face of it to many believers . This implies that, in order to find Truth Value in what you state, a "deeper"...

But 'Some of you will see it happening before you die' is a testable forecast. And some Thessalonians appeared to expect it, which is difficult, imo, to set aside, even if here we are not doing the epistles of Paul. Please name a Thessalonian who expected to "see it happening before death"...

Nobody is setting that aside. You and I agree about the literalness of Paul's audiences' expectations. The current issue, however, is whether the composition date of an apparently later work than Paul's letters "must have" come within a certain time frame...... First of all the so-called ...

... the Jesus story was derived directly by manipulating the Septuagint and the writings of Josephus. The Semitisms in the Christian Bible is a direct result of copying Jewish Scripture and other Jewish writings already written in Greek. It's possible Jewish scripture not readily available in Greek...

There are sayings which make no sense in Greek but which make perfect sense in Hebrew or Aramaic: http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3718 , implying that they hail from a Semitic environment. There are Semitisms in the gospels which, while they are not enough to prove that the t...

There are sayings which make no sense in Greek but which make perfect sense in Hebrew or Aramaic: http://earlywritings.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3718 , implying that they hail from a Semitic environment. There are Semitisms in the gospels which, while they are not enough to prove that the t...

For the ones interested, I described here in details http://historical-jesus.info/hjes3x.html how a strictly Jewish messianic sect provided the start to an evolution which led to a Gentile Christianity incompatible with Judaism. Cordially, Bernard Your arguments are all baseless. The Christian Bibl...

I know it clearly states that the Jews killed him. But mainstream critical scholarship also demonstrates that that passage has a questionable authenticity. There are no authentic letters of Paul. The existing manuscripts with so-called Pauline letters were composed sometime c 2nd-3rd century by mul...

A quibble. I deplore Carrier's use of "outer space" in this context. It is a grossly misleading anachronism. A more accurate term is "sub lunar realm" since that term is one to which the ancients themselves could relate. Outer space suggests the open expanse above the earth's at...