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  1. Brian2

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Luke claims that Herod was King of Judea in the days of Jesus birth. Luke 1:5 In the days of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah,.................... Herod was not King of Judea in 6CE. Acts should tell us about the fate of Peter and Paul and Jerusalem if it was written...
  2. Brian2

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    The modern scholars you are talking about go by the most compelling evidence I guess. They are not looking at things through the eyes of faith and I guess they do not accept Luke as a source of historical accuracy even if he has been shown to be very accurate historically in his writings.
  3. Brian2

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Luke has been called a good historian by other historians who have seen that his writing was precise and accurate historically. He has been considered to have been inaccurate by some but it has been shown that what were considered mistakes were actually correct. There remains the census at the...
  4. Brian2

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Well that is the sceptic pov yes. Tradition without foundation? Why isn't Church tradition just the history that was passed down about the gospels? There is evidence in the Bible for Mark and Peter's association and in church history that Mark wrote the gospel of Mark as a translator of Peter...
  5. Brian2

    Egyptian exodus proof or slavery?

    True, the texts are not proof of anything, including what God did. Does that mean that modern historians and Bible analysts and Archaeologists etc should analyse the text with assumption that the God parts just did not happen? Of course not. So what we have is critical Biblical scholars and...
  6. Brian2

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Both Matthew and Luke have Jesus born in the reign of Herod and sceptics like to attack the accuracy of Luke instead of Matthew. Luke afterall is seen as an accurate historian and that has to be attacked. The only reason to say that Luke's gospel was written as late as 80AD is the sceptic...
  7. Brian2

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Yes I know that, but this is not a court of law. Historians writing down what multiple witnesses saw and heard is certainly a good way for a historian to collect information. Luke was acting as a historian according to his opening paragraph in his gospel. He seems to have been attempting to...
  8. Brian2

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    I'm not American and it is a matter of opinion as to whether I am old,,,,,,,,, but I have been getting there for a while. The accounts of Jesus sightings after the resurrection are of a different type to people who may have fleetingly seen someone who looked like Elvis. There are good reasons...
  9. Brian2

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Yes a faith is a faith. It does not make those writings true, but yes Baha'u'llah probably wrote the things attributed to him.
  10. Brian2

    Egyptian exodus proof or slavery?

    We aren't in a "who dun it" mystery, we are given the story of what happened but don't like it because it talks about the supernatural and what God did. It is as @Audie said in post #428 You must think.its gotta be true no matter what Change every detail and any story is true But it's the...
  11. Brian2

    Egyptian exodus proof or slavery?

    Scholarship is however meant to be neutral to the supernatural. What you describe is not neutrality. So modern scholarship is biased and yet seen by many as the only scholarship which seeks the truth. IOW, the naturalistic methodology of science is assumed to be the truth in modern scholarship...
  12. Brian2

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    It does not really matter what the rules are in a court. It is pretty credible for historical documents to be from witnesses. Mark is supposed to have got his information from Peter. John is supposed to have been the apostle John, Matthew the apostle Matthew. Luke tells us he got his...
  13. Brian2

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    I can't prove that he is right or wrong. But there are claims of witness accounts. Can't do any better than that. Even if the writer claimed to have been a witness, that can't be proven. Even if the writer wrote in the first person and claimed to be Jesus, that can't be proven. Actually, others...
  14. Brian2

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    In Luke also we have a historian who seems to have been in a position to collect witness accounts, telling us that is his source of information, and this may be only 30 years after the death of Jesus. It is more than exaggeration to say that Jesus rose from the dead if He did not.
  15. Brian2

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    According to the New Testament there are witness accounts to Jesus there.
  16. Brian2

    Egyptian exodus proof or slavery?

    Scholars are meant to treat the supernatural with neutrality in their work no matter what they believe in their private beliefs. Neutrality imo is to say that the supernatural may or may no have happened. Modern scholarship however seems to think that "neutrality" means saying that the...
  17. Brian2

    Egyptian exodus proof or slavery?

    Even your link says that some scholars continue to discuss the historicity and plausibility of the Exodus story. Saying "it did not happen" is a statement of faith. The truth is not found in a vote by scholars, the most votes deciding what happened and what did not happen.
  18. Brian2

    A Christian believes --------------------------------?

    Who was the abomination of desolation that was seen in 1844? There was no sanctuary or most holy place in 1844. The Temple had been destroyed in 70AD. There is no reason to start the 2300 days in 457 BC except that it sort of fits with 1844. BUT Jesus was born in about 4 BC so that messes up...
  19. Brian2

    Egyptian exodus proof or slavery?

    There is plenty of evidence for Semitic slaves in Egypt. There also is evidence for the plagues, but nothing official from the Egyptian Government saying "An unknown Semetic God has humiliated the Egyptian gods and caused the ruin of Egypt through a series of plagues and forced the Pharaoh to...
  20. Brian2

    A Christian believes --------------------------------?

    This is from the site you posted (Some Answered Questions, Page 36-44) Afterward, in verse 11, it is said: “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolation be set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is he...
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