(October 11, 2018 at 10:51 am)Grandizer Wrote:(October 11, 2018 at 10:42 am)SteveII Wrote: Give me an example of "Evaluation of texts should be done in the same way as any other texts from the time period and society. Any extraordinary claims made should be treated the same as similar claims made by other authors." in the ancient world and I will describe the 100 ways in which that example is different than the 27 NT documents.
Ok, I'll give one myself. Alexander the Great was conceived in a miraculous manner, according to this ~historical~ work:
http://www.livius.org/sources/content/pl...alexander/
Why should we not take this to be true?
Off the top of my head: Plutarch is not attesting to the events he writes about. In his defense it was 400 years earlier.
So...that's actually 401 reasons.
