(April 8, 2012 at 10:15 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Wow.. That's pretty interesting stuff. What are your sources? I feel like I've been looking in the wrong place to learn more about the history of it all.
The facts I've given about the order of the authorship of the books of the NT are not in dispute and neither is the existence of the heterodox Christianities (though Christian apologists will try to marginalize them as schismatics and heretical splinter groups that never really mattered much).
A good place to begin is with Bart Ehrman's "Lost Christianities". He's a Biblical scholar who believes there was a historical Jesus but his research shows the myth about how his ministry "got off the ground quickly and spread rapidly in the fact of persecution" isn't supported by the historical data.
Robert Price is also an excellent source for debunking the official apologetic story. I'm currently reading his "The Case Against The Case for Christ".
Another source is from the Bible itself. I have the New Oxford Annotated Bible, (NRSV 3rd Ed) which contains introductions that outline what Biblical scholars believe.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
