RE: Modern examples of gullibility as evidence against Christian claims
July 16, 2012 at 11:18 am
(July 14, 2012 at 8:36 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Stop claiming Mark was an eye-witness account! Christian scholars make no such claims.They do. The common consensus is that Peter and Mark were both eyewitnesses. Mark was one of the "Seventy Disciples" (Hippolytus records it), meaning he followed Jesus for a great deal of time. The question is simply which events he saw and which Peter saw. First three hits on google:
http://biblocality.com/forums/showthread...r-and-John
http://bible.org/seriespage/eyewitness-t...99s-gospel
http://www.gotquestions.org/four-Gospels.html
All confirm Mark as his own eyewitness. Mark never claims not to be an eyewitness, and he portrays nearly all of Israel as seeing Jesus at some point (all Jews went to Jerusalem for the Passover, during which Jesus preached). He leads his reader to believe he was an eyewitness. His willingness to pass Peter's experiences as his own shows his complete confidence in their truth--that is the culture of 1st century Israel, and that's what his readers also would have assumed.
Quote:How about we begin that discussion by you telling me the story of the resurrection.http://www.jesuswalk.com/resurrection/2_...ospels.htm
http://www.bethinking.org/resources/q.-h...surrection-
