(Ron) Aristotle
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Wed, 27 May 1998 00:56:00 (00896248560, 3.0.5.16.19980527005600.0eafcfac@205.242.230.4)
At 09:13 PM 5/26/98 PDT, David Conklin wrote:
>1) The evidence that paul knew of Jesus can be found in his
>writings--this is acknowledged by Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, and
>non-Christian scholars alike. See any decent commentary of Romans for
>instance.
No evidence can be found in the writings of any
human being. Paul had only hallucinations of Jesus.
>2) There are literally very few scholars who believe that any of the
>gospels were written "as much as 70 years after" the death of Jesus.
So? You think the truth is decided by the majority
vote of "scholars"?
>3) One must always ask on what basis do the scholars "reject" that
>Matthew may have been written within 10 years of Christ's death. If you
>do so you will find precious little evidence to support their case.
You have no idea what the word evidence even means.
>4) It is alleged that the Gospels contradict each other--usually these
>"contradictions" are the result of ignoring the context of the passages,
>ignoring the cultural context of the writings, reading menaings [sic] into
>words and phrases that the original writers, and readers, would never
>have had in their mind, and sometimes by a too literal interprtation [sic]
of
>the texts.
Among many other things. Just because the Lord Aristotle
in His Third Commandment said "Thou shalt not have any
contradictions" does not mean that Aristotle was truly
God. Contradictions exist in reality regardless of what
some Fools believe.
>5) The witnesses to the miracles of the Bible either accepted the
>message or rejected it--the latter however could not write anything
>agaisnt [sic] the miracles themselves because there was too much evidence
>"waking around" to counter their arguments.
You have no idea what evidence is. Some witnesses
did in fact write against the alleged "miracles"
saying Jesus performed magic tricks. See the
Talmud of the first century.
Dick Jones