RE: Modern examples of gullibility as evidence against Christian claims
July 16, 2012 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: July 16, 2012 at 2:01 pm by DeistPaladin.)
Thanks Undeceived. If you're done quoting blogs and forum posts to support your fantasy about Mark, I'll quote reputable published sources.
This candid review of Mark comes to us from mainstream Christian scholarship, not from a skeptic essay. But hey, what do the folks at Oxford University know, right. I'm sure your bloggers, forum posters and fringy apologetic sources know more than they do.
Seriously though, I hope I've successfully pounded this point into your skull:
MARK...
WAS...
NOT...
AN...
EYE-...
WITNESS!
The published annotations to the third edition of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, published by Oxford University Press in 2001 Wrote:Although the Gospel is anonymous, an ancient tradition ascribes it to John Mark, who is supposed to have composed it in Rome as a summary of Peter’s preaching. Modern scholars, however, find little evidence to support this tradition. …Mark appears to have drawn upon a rich variety of oral traditions of Jesus’ actions and teachings… Mark ends abruptly at 16.8. …In some later manuscripts, Mark’s story was "completed".-New Oxford Annotated Bible, NT, p57
This candid review of Mark comes to us from mainstream Christian scholarship, not from a skeptic essay. But hey, what do the folks at Oxford University know, right. I'm sure your bloggers, forum posters and fringy apologetic sources know more than they do.
Seriously though, I hope I've successfully pounded this point into your skull:
MARK...
WAS...
NOT...
AN...
EYE-...
WITNESS!
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
