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Evidence for why we know the New Testament writers told the truth.

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1. Create a thread based on a single circular argument.

2. Create a few lame responses to the dissent your OP raises.

3. Make 5 or 6 posts a day referring back to these responses.

4. Your post count can be boosted by posting frequently to report your post count.

5. Don't ever absorb anything that other posters write. It will distract you from your spamming post count enhancement procedure.
 
Simon39759 said:
The Bible also has several references (a dozen or so, I believe) to unicorn. Is it good enough for you too?
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In the KJV, yes. In the NRSV and NIV, for instance, we find wild oxen instead. But the issue of unicorns still remains for the KJV only people.
 
BobTheDonkey said:
Well, really, I just find it odd that there are 2000+ verses written by these authors, and yet only 140-odd are actually verified to be true...
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Actually many more facts are verified to be true, The author was just talking about highly detailed facts. He didn't mention the common facts we know are true like Pontius Pilate had Jesus executed. (reported by historian Tacitus). Jesus existed (reported twice by Josephus). John the Baptist existed (reported by Josephus). The 12 apostles existed, reported by other writers outside of the bible. Paul existed, as shown by his many letters, etc..
 
politas said:
This thread is still going? When are you all going to realise that DOC is not amenable to rational argument?
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I was recently thinking the same thing about some skeptics in here -- that is they are not amendable to rational arguments.
 
Simon39759 said:
The Bible also has several references (a dozen or so, I believe) to unicorn. Is it good enough for you too?
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From Yahoo answers:

...also the unicorn references refer to the rhinoceros.

Reply: The first one should be fairly obvious; Hebrew "sa`iyr" vs English "satyr". As to the second, it may be called a unicorn because it refers to the creature's most notable feature, its horn. Also if you check the KJV margin for Isaiah 34:7. you'll find "Rhinocerots" as an alternate English rendering of the word "unicorn".

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090310044335AAmiONC
 
In reality, 'unicorn' probably did not refer to a rhino but, as Clinford mentioned, to a species of Ox.

That being said, by the same reasoning you do, when the Bible refers to an "Angel", it actually means 'a very effeminate man'.
Come on, prove me wrong!

See, with enough apologetics, you can make excuses and defend any position.
 
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DOC said:
From Yahoo answers:

...also the unicorn references refer to the rhinoceros.

Reply: The first one should be fairly obvious; Hebrew "sa`iyr" vs English "satyr". As to the second, it may be called a unicorn because it refers to the creature's most notable feature, its horn. Also if you check the KJV margin for Isaiah 34:7. you'll find "Rhinocerots" as an alternate English rendering of the word "unicorn".

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090310044335AAmiONC
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So the KJV translation is wrong.

Excellent. I wonder how many other errors are in it?
 
DOC said:
Actually many more facts are verified to be true, The author was just talking about highly detailed facts. He didn't mention the common facts we know are true like Pontius Pilate had Jesus executed. (reported by historian Tacitus).
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Not true, Tacitus was reporting on Christian beliefs.
He seems to have believed them, but that is just his unsubstanciated opinion.


Jesus existed (reported twice by Josephus).
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Not true either.
One of the report is almost definitively a total interpolation.
The second one is also in doubt, it is very possible that he was talking about another Jesus and James and that the identification about Jesus was an interpolation.

John the Baptist existed (reported by Josephus).
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Very likely.


The 12 apostles existed, reported by other writers outside of the bible.
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Who?
We have no such proofs.


Paul existed, as shown by his many letters, etc..
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Also very likely.



You know, you have made these blunt statements multiple times before and were corrected then.
Repeating them do not make them true. I mean, they might make it 'Gospel truth', but a Gospel written by Luke, from here on on, nicknamed "just as much of a liar as Onesiscritus".
 
Isn't it odd there is way more evidence for John the Baptist, a supporting actor, as opposed to the so-called main player?
It reminds me of Spiderman meeting Barack Obama.
 
So, over 7,000 posts, and still no Evidence, none. Why is this so-called god so unpowerful, so unknowing, so.............., never mind, it is such a waste of time.

Paul

:) :) :)
 
Lothian said:
Jesus preferred boys.
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So? That's not a bar to marriage and having children in many places nowadays (true, they might have to adopt, but still...) :D

DOC said:
From Yahoo answers:

...also the unicorn references refer to the rhinoceros.

Reply: The first one should be fairly obvious; Hebrew "sa`iyr" vs English "satyr". As to the second, it may be called a unicorn because it refers to the creature's most notable feature, its horn. Also if you check the KJV margin for Isaiah 34:7. you'll find "Rhinocerots" as an alternate English rendering of the word "unicorn".

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090310044335AAmiONC
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Ahem:

(Two horns. Two.)
 

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