Third Day Resurrection
Alan Fuller arfuller@rocketmail.com
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:53:00 -0800 (PST) (00884652780, 19980112185300.4255.rocketmail@attach1.rocketmail.com)
Well okay. I don't have time to answer everybodies
questions thourghly, so I guess I'll have to admit to
the possibility that the books of the Bible weren't
written by who we think they were.
AF
---Steven Carr <steven@bowness.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> In message
<19980109205040.25359.rocketmail@web2.rocketmail.com>,
Alan
> Fuller <arfuller@rocketmail.com> writes
>
> (about 2 Peter being claimed not to be by Peter)
>
> >
> >Allegations like these are hard for me to take
> >seriously since I can find what I feel are gross
> >errors in some of the reasoning. I suspect that
the
> >people making these claims are as prejudiced against
> >the authenticity of the Bible as I am for it.
>
> I can give you the names of dozens of Christian
scholars who argue that
> 2 Peter is not by Peter. Not all of these
Christians are prejudiced
> against the Bible.
>
> Who do you think does mainstream Christian Biblical
scholarship? By and
> large, almost everybody who publishes works about
the NT is a Christian
> of one flavour or another. You cannot dismiss them
as prejudiced just
> because they come up with results you do not like.
Thye are prejudiced
> in favour of Christianity , not against.
>
>
> Christians who recorded that other Christians had
doubts about 2 Peter
> include Origen, Eusebius and Jerome. By what
stretch of the imagination
> do you claim that they were prejudiced against the
authenticity of the
> Bible?
>
> You appear to be claiming that 2 Peter must be by
Peter because his name
> appears at the top. Isn't this a man-made rule of
literature of the kind
> which you said we should not apply to the Bible?
>
> There is a letter by Jesus, preserved in Eusebius's
'History of
> Christianity'. Do you accept that it is by Jesus,
just because it has
> his name on the top?
>
>
>
> --
> Steven Carr steven@bowness.demon.co.uk
> Visit the UK's leading atheist Web page
> http://www.bowness.demon.co.uk/
>
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