(August 16, 2016 at 3:27 pm)SteveII Wrote:(August 16, 2016 at 3:15 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Reporting on supposed eyewitness accounts =/= eyewitness accounts...
I wrote my sentence poorly. Peter, James and John = eyewitnesses.
Luke was kind of a reporter who interviewed eyewitnesses for Luke and Acts.
Paul knew some of the apostles and referred to them (so not an eyewitness but confirmed his belief that the apostles and others were eyewitnesses).
You also seem to think that Peter wrote 2 Peter, a document written so long after the alleged events of Jesus' life that the claim of the Son of Man coming in his glory within the lifetimes of some of his listeners had become an embarrassment to the church. Hence, one of modern Christianity's favorite weasel verses to explain away the false prophecy of their own god: a thousand years is but a day to God.
Yeah . . . not buying it.