Really, O’Reilly?
A sneak preview of the movie was played which contain the famous scene; Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery. “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”…John 8:7
Everyone knows that story be they Christian or atheist but did it happen?
The story (periscope) is not found in the Codex Sinaiticus or Vaticanus but appears around 400 A.D. in the Codex Bezae. Clearly the story is an interpolation but where did it come from and did it really happen?
“Papias (circa AD 125) refers to a story of Jesus and a woman "accused of many sins" as being found in the Gospel of the Hebrews, which may well refer to this passage;…”…wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_and_ ... n_adultery
This is just one of many examples that O’Reilly claims to be proven history but the footnotes in his book fall far short of convincing.
Just because the story is in his Catholic Bible does not make it history.
Still, I will watch the movie because it looks like a high quality film unlike; "The Passion of the Christ".
John T
