Do you think jesus christ existed

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Glad you asked. Very few scholars dispute the author is the same person,
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Ah the nonsense about scholars again. I couldn;t give a damn for 'scholars' and their nonsense.

they're both addressed to the same person Theophilus, and Acts begins with "In the first book, O Theophilus ..." The writing style is similar and very well written, the only book in the NT that scholars say is more sophisticated in its Greek is the book of Hebrews and for this reason many scholars hold the view that Luke penned the Epistle and that Paul or somebody else close to Paul dictated it to Luke (this of course assumes that Luke didn't use a scribe). Regardless of the authorship of Hebrews, Luke-Acts total 27.5% of the NT text - so there's a huge amount of text to compare between the two. In comparison, all 13 of Paul's Epistles total 23.5% of the NT text, yet many scholars as you know claim that the much shorter epistles is enough to gauge his writing style - despite the fact that he uses scribes and doesn't pen his own letters!

So just by writing 'dear theophilus' its the same person.???

Oh yes we do, there's no doubt that Paul existed. First off there are his 13 Letters - the 7 undisputed plus the six additional ones that all contain similar greetings, and similar farewells to them, and all say that they're written by Paul.

There is plenty of doubt. You have letters and can't prove who wrote them

Then we have the book of Acts which talks about Paul extensively in the present, and three times Luke uses the first-person plural narrative which strongly implies that at the very least in those passages the author of Acts himself was present. 2 Peter also mentions Paul. We know more about St Paul than any other early Christian after Christ dies in the first century.

Again you go back to the bible as your proof.

Somebody had to write his 13 Epistles, as you know sceptical scholars (atheists, agnostics, etc) only accept his authorship of 7 - leaving 6 that they would believe are pseudographically attributed to him - well pseudepigrapha requires that the person you're attributing your letter to is a real person. Also, nobody would write 7 letters and pseudographically attribute them to the one person, the notion is absurd. So any way you look at it, Paul had to have existed.

No. He quite possibly did but you have no evidence. There are no atheist'scholars' that term is used by Bahbul loons. We have academics

Feel free to provide your counter-evidence - specifically I'd like to know why somebody would attribute 7-13 letters to an invented character?

Read Dracula, its full of invented letters.

Rubbish, I provided you more than that. I've given you primary considerations, and secondary considerations - and then there are literacy considerations, etc, that come in to play as well. Paul quotes Luke 10:7 in 1 Timothy 5:18, and before you kick up a fuss about whether we know the authorship or not (since it's not one of the magic 7). The Last Supper takes place in all three synoptic gospels. Most accounts omit the first passing of the wine, but Luke's does not. Luke's also says this:

You have not given a single piece of primary evidence. Indeed you have demonstrated you don;t even know what the term means

Irrelivant as that section isn't forged - and you've just changed your argument.

How do you know -did the bahbul tell you or is it some 'scholars' from "Hope 'n Glory" Bahbul school, Buttfuck Mo. ?

Fuck you,

Now there is naughty languagehock:

I grow impatient of your ignorance and stupidity.

Is it just me or does this guy think he is a James bond master villain

Go troll elsewhere

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