RE: Christians - even the Bible says that Jesus was not God so why do you say he was ?
October 26, 2015 at 8:09 am
(October 23, 2015 at 11:19 am)Irrational Wrote:(October 23, 2015 at 10:25 am)alpha male Wrote: Conjecture of Q is unnecessary addition of an entity, and that's a violation of Occam's Razor.
Except it's necessary until a better explanation comes along. Your explanation is not really parsimonious as it doesn't, for example, account for the differences between the genealogies that well. You have to add all sorts of unwarranted assumptions to reach the conclusion you want to make.
No, you just need to add one set of parentheses or a couple of commas to reach my position. That's far less than an entire Q source that was so well distributed that two gospel writers used it, but yet so rare that not a single copy survived.