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  1. oldbadger

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Good for you. People who don't want to take part in Jury duties really should not be forced to take part.
  2. oldbadger

    Did Jesus Christ Actually Exist?

    Joelr........Bye Bye....... !
  3. oldbadger

    Did Jesus Christ Actually Exist?

    Joelr....you told me that you were done with me. .... Remember ? No?
  4. oldbadger

    How Do You Know You’re Not Jesus Christ?

    Because my wife thinks that I can be devilish at times. You see? Wrong person.
  5. oldbadger

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Where I live if you get selected for service then you go. But if you ever are on a jury you can ask the judge to enquire further about evidence that you think is 'strange' in any way.
  6. oldbadger

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Id give anybody, scholar or not, the chance to show how they've come to an opinion, but I agree with you that most Christian debaters (scholars or not) are only arguing from faith. I also think that there was a Jesus, a rebel who caused trouble. I think that Josephus wrote a small paragraph...
  7. oldbadger

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Some do, blu...some. And some don't. How many times have you seen,/read scholars findings being quoted but not explained. Within the last month a poster has told me that where a scholar's and layman's opinions differ then he would always accept the scholar's without any further investigation...
  8. oldbadger

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    From that bunch of miracles above, I think that Jesus walking on water and the casting of demons could have grown from real life actions. I suppose that many people would assume that fishermen could all swim but that isn't true, and we know for sure that Cephas could not swim from gospel...
  9. oldbadger

    Exodus Archeology Evidence

    Is this what I have heard of as the 'Aryan' migrations, Bharat? You mention the migration of the Jews, do you in fact mean the migration of the Israelites? I understand that there were 12 tribes within the Israelite nation but I'm not sure which tribes (apart from the Levites and Benjaminites)...
  10. oldbadger

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    But do you do that? It seems to me that on many occasions 'experts' findings can get supported by friendly experts. A perfect example is often expert-witnesses in litigation. Experts give their evidence on opposing sides, and a judge or jury will decide who is right.
  11. oldbadger

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Yes, for sure, Didymus. A review of the lives of so many Christians can support your above points so clearly. People who believe they will be 'saved' regardless of anything that they do. That word, 'sinner ' is so interesting. Almost without exception, as soon as I see or hear that word it...
  12. oldbadger

    Egyptian exodus proof or slavery?

    Absolutely! But only where the same-result is explained. Where debaters just tell me that a bunch of scholars all agree on a finding, then that if itself doesn't excite me...... I want to know what their workings were.
  13. oldbadger

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Ah yes. That question arises again and again through all the gospels..... How could anybody have reported this or that. ??? I can only tell you what I think, ok? I reckon that G-Mark was embellished, edited, fiddled with and added to afterwards. I don't take any notice of claims about...
  14. oldbadger

    Egyptian exodus proof or slavery?

    Indigo Child already mentioned the number including women/children on the parallel conversation which you have replied to, so your whole post is just a parroting of his. He mentioned that theist apologist theologians have taken that number from the bible, but that is where the number commences...
  15. oldbadger

    Egyptian exodus proof or slavery?

    Fair enough. Whatever time limit would be guesstimated for an Exodus event, and however many wades or wide the path of it, I can't imagine more than a few thousand getting through. Despite all that I think that there must have been some escape event which became magnified over time.
  16. oldbadger

    Exodus Archeology Evidence

    Hello Bharat. Some theological researchers do indeed think that a date of circa 1500 BCE is possible for the Exodus, but others place that date much later. Will we ever know? :shrug:
  17. oldbadger

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    Yes, can we just say 'the author'? I do have to guesstimate a great deal in historical Jesus studies but where possible I do try to stop myself because it's so easy for presumption to escape. :) Just sticking to the arrest, I know that during such an event as described there is absolute mayhem...
  18. oldbadger

    Egyptian exodus proof or slavery?

    Thank you very much for your post, IndigoChild. Yes, I have seen the number of 600,000, and have also read that this huge number of men is considered to be unlikely by some historians. Given all natural possibilities beyond the actions of a God I don't think that a very high number of persons...
  19. oldbadger

    There are no eyewitness accounts of Jesus in the New Testament

    So you didn't bother to read the last paragraph in my post, yet you want to send me off somewhere rather than just writing down a message of your own. Thus:- I do believe that he was present at the arrest. He reported things that only he and some Temple officers would have witnessed or...
  20. oldbadger

    Egyptian exodus proof or slavery?

    Bye bye Audie.
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