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Matthew claims that he was one of the twelve and personally witnessed almost everything he wrote. Chapter and verse? I'll help you out. No such claim exists in the gospel of Matthew. You made this up. Mark claims to have written on behalf of Peter, an eye-witness. Mark claims no such thing. Are you...

Mental flatliner wrote:Excellent!! I love this game of the perpetually shifting burden of proof.

We've noticed.

The gospels are from original witnesses and the only way to debunk them is to find other eye-witnesses with equal or greater authority. Good luck with that. What shows the gospels are from original witnesses? They claim to be, No they don't. Eyewitness accounts are not automatically taken at face v...

The gospels claim to be the original writings of eye-witnesses No they don't. This is the second time you have flat out made something up (or been grievously misinformed) about what the Gospels claim about themselves. If you want to assign specific authorship to these books, then you are the one wi...

Since when do primary historical sources require substantiation? Since always, but the Gospels are not primary sources. They're not even secondary. And who in modern times has the personal knowledge of these events to declare them substantiated? This is a ludicrously backwards question. Knowledge o...

I just provided several. If you are literate in the subject, then I presume you already have those authors in your library right alongside your Lee Strobel books.

The goal is to figure out what actually happened, not to retell it. The problem is that the Gospels are already "retellings" (at best), so we are forced to try to extract authentic history from fictionalized accounts. It's like trying to figure out what is historically accurate about Danie...

The sources about crucifixion and the practice of leaving bodies on the cross to become carrion come from a multiplicity of contemporaneous ancient authors, including Pliny the Elder, Josephus, Horace, Juvenal, Petronius and others. There are also some corroborating evidence such as inscriptions sta...

MrMacSon wrote:Isn't there some tie between Acts (of the Apostles) and Luke?

Same author.

That's incorrect. Acts has several historical errors.

Many (if not most) of the seminarians were Christians, by the way.