Hey Walt! It's easy to hit and run - staying to fight takes courage!
April
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> From: Sassanian <sassanian@shell.liberty.com>
> To: errancy@infidels.org
> Subject: Walt Jr's dialogue techniques (for all)
> Date: Saturday, February 22, 1997 9:02 PM
>
> Has anyone else aside from Farrell noticed Walt likes to pose lots of
> questions, but hardly ever gets around to answering those posed by
> others? I know that Farrell has asked Walt lots of questions, and I
> myself have, but little has been responded to--but Walt has time to shoot
> some back at us.
>
> Mike
>
> OnSat, 22 Feb 1997, Walter Nusbaum wrote:
>
> > Mike,
> >
> > It looks like you have bought into the skeptical methodology of
history. To
> think that in order to have a reliable history of someone, that the
sources
> have to be contemporary is naive. Name me the contemporary sources of
Plato
> or Aristotle. I think you will be hard pressed to do this; in fact, the
New
> Testament is more reliable in this regard than any other ancient work.
>
> > You are setting up a double standard for the New Testament. If you use
the
> methodology of other histories on the N.T., you will realize how
reliable the
> documents as well as the outside sources really are. I'm sorry you are
so
> closed about this.
>
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