How convenient for Christians. Shows God only respects those who believe he's real, right? The rest he couldn't care if they disappeared tomorrow. If he cared he'd reveal himself to them if he loves them so much. But he doesn't appear to them and so he couldn't give two ships about them. Another...
You might not have heard of the term, Pseudepigrapha--which is just a fancy word for forged. What scholars agree on is that 7 of the 12 epistles were written by the same person because they have the same writing styles whereas the other 5 don't, but it still doesn't offer irrefutable proof it...
Licona's book is all smoke and mirrors, Apologes. ES, EP, P, and I etc. are all clever terms of art to try to put flesh and plausibility onto a theory that has been discredited over and over and over again. There's so much to prove wrong in your post that I can't do everything. I'll do maybe...
Basically you're saying, "Don't bother me with secular historical evidence. Secular historical evidence is worthless against any claims made in the Bible. If the Bible says a donkey talked in Genesis you can bet your life on it. If the Bible says Moses turned a staff into a snake in Exodus you...
I assume Josephus' "The Jewish War" is not good enough for you.
Of the War — Book VII
Containing the interval of about three years.
From the taking of Jerusalem by Titus, to the sedition at Cyrene.
Chapter 1.
How the entire city of Jerusalem was demolished, excepting three towers. And how...
It's not difficult to prove the destruction of the temple. What leaves me agape is that you have the temerity to compare two fictitious characters in a document universally acknowledged to be a religious manifesto and not an authenticated historical record with an event likewise universally...
It is stunningly ridiculous comments like this that makes me despair of ever hearing anything halfway intelligent from a Christian.
leroy, you are actually asserting that the evidence for the resurrection is as solid as the evidence that the Romans destroyed Jerusalem and burned down the...
You;'re making all this too simplistic, Faith. People die for a lie all the time albeit unknowingly. You believe Islam is a lie, don't you? But Islamists blow themselves up all the time. Are they blowing themselves up for a lie, or do they believe that what they are blowing themselves up for is...
In an age when gullible dumb as rocks goat herders suddenly turned into highly educated forward thinking individuals and scientists 2000 years later would it be too naive to ask sarcastically, "Are we really surprised?" Seems man simply became too intelligent for God to handle so he slunk away...
So please show us the gospel of Mark traced back to its original version.
Re the contradictions you don't have to read the opinions. Just read the contradictions. Such as
"And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend." Exodus 33:11
And
“… I have seen God...