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I told you 'bout the Way and Meme, "Mark". You know that they're as close as can be, "Mark". Well, here's another clue for you awwall. The Way was Paul's JW : Recently posted by Super Skeptic Neil Godfree: Jesus’ Crucifixion As Symbol of Destruction of Temple and Judgment on the...

JW : The very critical Bible scholar Bart Ehrman recently posted: Women at the Tomb Mark makes a special point throughout his narrative that the male disciples never do understand who Jesus is. Despite all his miracles, despite all his teachings, despite everything they see him do and say, they nev...

...what a nightmare JW : Continuing to looking for evidence of fiction with the third criterion of likelihood: 1) Likelihood 1 - The extent of the impossible 2 - The extent of contradictions 3 - The extent of the improbable For our test pericope here, Mark 1:9-11, what is the extent of the improbabl...

ARGUMENT FROM ANNOYANCE WITH THREAD (1) Bowolf is annoyed with the existence of this Thread even though no one has ever been murdered because they believed this thread existed. (2) It's impossible that Bowolf is annoyed because of bias and lack of scholarship. (3) Bowolf must be annoyed because Jesu...

I Ain't Been Home Since Friday Night and Now my Wife, is Coming After me JW : The other thing that gets me here is when a fragment is discovered that has strong parallels to what is extant, CBS takes that as evidence of authenticity, if they like what it says. And when there is just one significant...

JW : The other issue that Goodacre/CBS are in denial about is motivation . In place of hard evidence CBS asserts that Jesus having a wife is a modern issue. However, there has always been an entire industry of forged artifacts praying on gullible Christians. The main motivation for forgery is money...

JW : This looks to be the cruncher for Goodacre as to his claim of clear modern forgery: Thursday, October 11, 2012 Jesus' Wife Fragment: Further Evidence of Modern Forgery Please take a look. This is a close up of the first line of the Jesus' Wife fragment, focusing in on that odd missing ⲙ̅ (M+su...

JW : In general, this is another hit on the credibility of CBS (Christian Bible Scholarship), starting with the conclusion that The Gospel of JW is a modern forgery before the hard evidence is presented (trying to proof-text based on supposed modern parallels). Obviously Believers don't like eviden...

JW : A few weeks ago I saw Mel Gibson's Jesus' movie (forgot the name), re-read The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ and meditated on the traditional moral authority of the Church (especially its handling of male children). For the first time I understood how a mythical story of Jesus suff...

JW : Looking for evidence of fiction with the second criterion: 1) Likelihood 1 - The extent of the impossible 2 - The extent of contradictions For our test pericope here, Mark 1:9-11, what is the extent of contradiction: Mark 1:9-11 [The Baptism of Jesus] 1:9 And it came to pass in those days, tha...