RE: Open debate: What does Jesus teach?
July 28, 2014 at 1:33 am
(This post was last modified: July 28, 2014 at 1:37 am by Purplundy.)
(July 27, 2014 at 11:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The New Testament was compiled long after Jesus, sure, but the material that was in it came about much earlier.
Quote:Evidence?To make the New Testament, a body of Christians needed to take Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and put them together.
How could they have done that if the Gospels hadn't been written before then?
Quote:Are there even any off-hand comments by Greco-Roman writers which can reliably point to any element of the jesus story?I. Wasn't. Even. Arguing. For the legitimacy of the Jesus story. Take your questions to an actual historian.
Quote:You've got one book....and you try to use it to prove itself.Oh, wait, I never did that.