(October 17, 2013 at 10:42 am)John V Wrote: Sure. Regarding decade, you take the word of modern people with limited records over the word of people much closer in time to the actual events.Yeah, in a surprise move, I go with professional historians and verified records instead of the rabbinic siblings of people who believed that disease was cause by demonic possession.
Quote:I disagree. Further, the people reading the accounts would likely have rejected them if they began with a glaring timing error.

Dude, seriously? There was no NT for centuries after Jesus! How would the early Christians have even known about the error, let alone be educated and savvy enough to pick up on it?
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