(May 8, 2017 at 8:37 am)Jehanne Wrote:(May 7, 2017 at 8:34 pm)alpha male Wrote: The point is the blatant contradiction. You endorse a revisionist historical theory at the beginning of the post, then at the end of the post you say you don't do that. THere were other problems in the post, but that just stuck out like a sore thumb.
I don't think that you can point to any New Testament scholar who regards the "500" as being historical, other than the right-wing evangelicals.
Seen tons of apologists make this argument over the years. And again, numbers, even in polytheism, and even in ancient plays and mere literature were used as devices to over conflate the story.
Use of numbers in legends and myths is not a patent owned or invented by Christianity. It really is no different than how other species will puff out their chests, stand on their hind legs, or expand their ears, like elephants do to make themselves appear bigger than they really are. This is merely the human literary fictional projection of that.
