How did the writings of the NT come to be?

[The Grand Nudger]

First, feel free to bow out. I get the feeling that, while you're aproaching 11,000 total posts, you're approaching 11 quality posts.

Probably right, a good 90% or better is me responding to shit like this, there is no opportunity for quality.

Second, perhaps you don't understand the flow of this line of the discussion. It goes like this:

A: There's no contemporaneous Roman documentation of the claims of Christianity.

There you go again.

C: This is an argument from silience. To be valid, you need to support that we should reasonably expect to find contemporaneous Roman documentation of the claims of Christianity.

What would I be arguing? It's a simple statement of fact. Another simple statement of fact is that romans did record various religious claims (so many and so often that a large portion of what we know of the classical world and pagan europe is, to varying degrees, thanks to them). Just what do you imagine that I would even argue with this?

A: OK, here's Tacitus talking about Druids.

Correct, he spoke of druids (maybe...but maybe he just made this shit up........"historians" did that sort of thing).

C: OK, here's Tacitus talking about Jesus.

Where? I can't find any reference to Jesus.

A: Tacitus wasn't a contemporary of Jesus, so that's not contemporaneous Roman documentation of the claims of Christianity.

He wasn't, and?

C: If Tacitus wasn't a contemporary of Jesus, then you still haven't given any support to the claim that we should reasonably expect to find contemporaneous Roman documentation of the claims of Christianity.

You don't even realize what you've been doing do you...lol

A: You're a moron, why do we even bother talking to you!!!

I don't think you're a moron. I think your responses have been disingenuous. A "moron" can be educated. You seem determined to persist in this shit no matter how well or how often your objections are noted and overcome.