(September 11, 2017 at 3:13 pm)SteveII Wrote:(September 11, 2017 at 3:08 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote: Here's the biggest problem with your gawd claims. You have no eyewitness testimony.
Well, except for John, Peter, and James...
Quote:Estimated dates of composition and author identity:
Interpretations differ:
- Conservative Protestants typically believe in the inerrancy of all of the books in the Bible. Thus, they believe that the authors, as identified in most of the Epistles, were the actual writers. Most believe that the Apostle John wrote both the Gospel of John and the Epistles 1,2, and 3 John. They generally believe that the Epistles were written early in the history of the Christian church; all but 1, 2 & 3 John were written before the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, at 70 CE.
- Liberal Christians typically believe that those Epistles whose approximate dates can be estimated were written after the destruction of the temple in 70 CE, by unknown persons. By that time, various segments of the early Christian movement had introduced new beliefs that were not present in primitive Christianity as taught by Jesus of Nazareth and Paul. They contain a lot of information about how beliefs developed within the church in the later 1st century and first half of the 2nd century CE.
- Roman Catholic scholars: Fr. Raymond E. Brown, is a member of the Vatican's Roman Pontifical Biblical Commission, and was described by Time magazine as "probably the premier Catholic scripture scholar in the U.S." 7 He has expressed his beliefs concerning the authorship of these epistles:
In "Hebrews" there is no reference to Paul being the author; there is no reference to the Hebrews. It was only in the second century CE that this epistle became interpreted as being directed at Hebrews. 1,2 and 3 John contain no reference to authorship by the author(s) of the Gospel of John. That belief also arose in the second century. Fr. Brown suggests that among critical scholars of the Bible:
- 95% believe that Peter did not write 2 Peter;
- 75% believe that Jude did not write Jude;
- 75% believe that James did not write James;
- about 50% believe that Peter did not write 1 Peter.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_ntb4.htm
Congratulations. You've manufactured a fact out of minority or disputed opinions. With such "evidence" it's not surprising that you've found an abundance of it. You present a biased and distorted interpretation of the evidence, much like the advocates of other religions. When we can't trust you to represent the facts faithfully, all we have left to examine is your antics. In that you are no different from the advocates of other religions. Claiming that your distorted misrepresentations of the facts is different from those of other religions is the real special pleading. They have their arguments and "evidence" and you have yours. In that you are no different from them. Your objection that you are "different" deserves to be dismissed just like your bogus "evidence".