RE: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
May 26, 2015 at 7:48 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2015 at 7:56 pm by Wyrd of Gawd.)
The Bible as a complete comprehensive book didn't exist until the English wrote it. There might have been bits and pieces of various scrolls as reference material for them to work with but the committee writers are the ones who wrote the current narrative. They could have used oral stories to fill in the blanks. But one thing is for sure and that is no complete scrolls written by Paul exist today. So the conclusion must be that Paul didn't write a damn thing. Someone else did.
And be realistic about the whole thing. The character supposedly wrote a lot of letters to various places around the Mediterranean Sea between 40-60 AD. OK, it could have happened. But is it likely that the recipients would have been able to have safe-guarded those scrolls through all of the wars and disruptions in the following centuries? Some guys probably used them for toilet paper.
It's time to start thinking like educated 21st Century adults instead of First Century illiterates.
And be realistic about the whole thing. The character supposedly wrote a lot of letters to various places around the Mediterranean Sea between 40-60 AD. OK, it could have happened. But is it likely that the recipients would have been able to have safe-guarded those scrolls through all of the wars and disruptions in the following centuries? Some guys probably used them for toilet paper.
It's time to start thinking like educated 21st Century adults instead of First Century illiterates.
