RE: How did the writings of the NT come to be?
October 22, 2012 at 4:53 pm
(October 22, 2012 at 4:25 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Strange...
A follower of a witness writes the first thing.
Then another witness writes another, heavily based on the first account... why didn't he write something new? Why did he base it on the other guy?
Then, years later, comes a scholar putting down hearsay and building further on top of what was already written.
What's strange about it?
Quote:This is not peer review: this is copy and add some bits.
Again, what are your expectations for peer review for historoical accounts for this time period?
Quote:It's right up there on the OP. Link and quote for the lazy!
Where does that link indicate that "the texts seem to have been embellished at one point (Paul?) and sent out to the world, hence the (somewhat) consistency among them...."?