In your land, an 83 year old dude writing something is a “wild assumption”. ok.
What makes you assume he’s 83? The only thing informing your assumptions are your conclusions. He must be the author, so he must have lived to 100ad, which means he must have been 16 when Jesus died…
You know what a scribe is… Right? Someone who sits with you as you dictate to them? You know a lot of news report articles about people aren’t actually written by that person, but a journalist themselves… And even then, a scribe is more reliable than a journalist 🤦
A scribe can also be some writing down an oral tradition…
Eusebius was quoting Clement of Alexandria from AD 150
Clement was born in 150ad… Eusebius utilized different sources to propose that there were at least two different johns. John the apostle who he supposed wrote the book of John and Presbyter John, who he believed wrote revelations.
Yes, because within the timeframe it was written in. The likes of Mark and Luke would have had those aspects, possibly some in Matthew, but even then, oral tradition isn’t unreliable and it takes centuries for supernatural claims and legends to show up.
“is widely agreed amongst Biblical scholars that accounts of Jesus’s teachings and life were initially conserved by oral transmission, which was the source of the written gospels”
In this case, anything arguing in favour or showing the resurrection of Christ is automatically “biased” by your definition.
No, if we had records from the Romans claiming the guy they crusified a couple days ago is back…that would be a source from outside his fellowship.
It’s like arguing with someone about global warming who doesn’t trust scientists or the scientific method
Lol, you are comparing magic to the scientific method?
Any science you do show them they dismiss as “biased” because they don’t trust scientists. In the same way, if anyone believed that Jesus rose again, they’d rationally be a Christian.
You don’t have to trust science, science is repeatable, it’s self explanatory… If I saw someone who was publicly executed and then I saw them again three days later, I wouldn’t automatically think they’re the son of God. I would rationally think it’s a different dude posing as him, or that they didn’t actually kill him.
the Gospels were biased, they wouldn’t have had bad stories about their leaders at the time. Such as peter denying Jesus, Peter cutting off a dude’s ear and Jesus rebuking him, or James and John trying to get priority status in Glory.
If scientology was biased they wouldn’t have bad stories about their leaders at the time…
Josephus couldn’t have written it, as Jesus didn’t rise from the dead"
Still have no idea what you are babbeling about?
Because those gnostic texts were known forgeries.
How so? The earliest evidence of the gospel of Mary is from the 3rd century and was thought to be written in the 2nd.
reason would have they had to pick and choose the four Gospels over the gnostic texts anyway?
What makes you assume he’s 83? The only thing informing your assumptions are your conclusions. He must be the author, so he must have lived to 100ad, which means he must have been 16 when Jesus died…
This is a pretty reasonable assumption? No?
A scribe can also be some writing down an oral tradition…
That’s not what I was referring to at all. It would be silly to think I was in the context I was talking about John writing John.
Clement was born in 150ad… Eusebius utilized different sources to propose that there were at least two different johns. John the apostle who he supposed wrote the book of John and Presbyter John, who he believed wrote revelations.
The writer of John still identifies himself as being at the crucifixion and last supper anyway. That’s a different debate over who wrote revelation.
“is widely agreed amongst Biblical scholars that accounts of Jesus’s teachings and life were initially conserved by oral transmission, which was the source of the written gospels”
Did you just quote Wikipedia? The admins on there are neckbeards such as Tgeorgescu who basically had a “no Christian apologists” rule which is impossible, because any historian who argues something that is pro Christianity, they are automatically labelled a “Christian apologist”.
No, if we had records from the Romans claiming the guy they crusified a couple days ago is back…that would be a source from outside his fellowship.
(63) Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works-a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; (64) and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.
The Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18, Chapter 3
From The Works of Josephus,
translated by William Whiston
If scientology was biased they wouldn’t have bad stories about their leaders at the time…
Are these in actual Scientology “scriptures”?
How so? The earliest evidence of the gospel of Mary is from the 3rd century and was thought to be written in the 2nd.
What makes you assume he’s 83? The only thing informing your assumptions are your conclusions. He must be the author, so he must have lived to 100ad, which means he must have been 16 when Jesus died…
A scribe can also be some writing down an oral tradition…
Clement was born in 150ad… Eusebius utilized different sources to propose that there were at least two different johns. John the apostle who he supposed wrote the book of John and Presbyter John, who he believed wrote revelations.
“is widely agreed amongst Biblical scholars that accounts of Jesus’s teachings and life were initially conserved by oral transmission, which was the source of the written gospels”
No, if we had records from the Romans claiming the guy they crusified a couple days ago is back…that would be a source from outside his fellowship.
Lol, you are comparing magic to the scientific method?
You don’t have to trust science, science is repeatable, it’s self explanatory… If I saw someone who was publicly executed and then I saw them again three days later, I wouldn’t automatically think they’re the son of God. I would rationally think it’s a different dude posing as him, or that they didn’t actually kill him.
If scientology was biased they wouldn’t have bad stories about their leaders at the time…
Still have no idea what you are babbeling about?
How so? The earliest evidence of the gospel of Mary is from the 3rd century and was thought to be written in the 2nd.
Because it didn’t fit within church doctrine.
This is a pretty reasonable assumption? No?
That’s not what I was referring to at all. It would be silly to think I was in the context I was talking about John writing John.
The writer of John still identifies himself as being at the crucifixion and last supper anyway. That’s a different debate over who wrote revelation.
Did you just quote Wikipedia? The admins on there are neckbeards such as Tgeorgescu who basically had a “no Christian apologists” rule which is impossible, because any historian who argues something that is pro Christianity, they are automatically labelled a “Christian apologist”.
The Antiquities of the Jews, Book 18, Chapter 3 From The Works of Josephus, translated by William Whiston
Are these in actual Scientology “scriptures”?
So not the first…
And how did they establish doctrine?