The First Century Void

[RoadRunner79]

Where they burnt there own books.  I've deleted music, that I no longer found the lyrics tasteful to my beliefs.   I hardly think, that this qualifies to the case that was attempted to be made.

Did you also delete the music for everyone else, so nobody would have your beliefs offended?

No... and neither did they in Acts....  Acts was a bad example by that poster.  

I posted a couple of articles... if you have evidence to the contrary then please provide it (i'll check it out).   But it seems that the myth of Christians on a mission to burn all books that disagreed with them; is just that... a myth.

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Christians creating books on magic and sorcery? And burning there own books is not what the passage says .

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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 (Name Deleted because the poster requested that you not use it 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

Actually proximity to an event does give one an advantage.  Would you trust a witness who wasn't there?     Time can also provide an advantage.   With a greater ability to see a wider view of all the evidence, and time to go over it.  If the time is short, but the proximity is good, then the witness may miss something. 

However, you are going to need evidence, and not just stories made up over 18 centuries later.   Just because it is new, doesn't mean it is better either.   That is a fallacy.