RE: The First Century Void
July 4, 2017 at 4:37 pm
(This post was last modified: July 4, 2017 at 4:46 pm by Amarok.)
Christians creating books on magic and sorcery? And burning there own books is not what the passage says .
Yeah it's pretty textbook apologist tactic. Almost as common as not understanding that being closer to an event does not make an account more reliable .Nor being further away make it less so . Yet they straw man this position on to Jesus skeptics (Wooter for example) while not getting it's contextual . It's not that the "wittiness etc are too late it's the quality of the documents. Both addressed
One Of Many Common Tactics
(July 4, 2017 at 4:12 pm)JackRussell Wrote: Try the argument from silence in non religious areas and see what archaeologists and historians do. Any religious person can do this, but you will have to pick some pretty boring subjects.
Yeah it's pretty textbook apologist tactic. Almost as common as not understanding that being closer to an event does not make an account more reliable .Nor being further away make it less so . Yet they straw man this position on to Jesus skeptics (Wooter for example) while not getting it's contextual . It's not that the "wittiness etc are too late it's the quality of the documents. Both addressed
One Of Many Common Tactics
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