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

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DOC said:
Actually the apostle Paul claimed to have met Jesus on the road to Damascus. And Paul also wrote Jesus appeared to all the apostles and at least 500 others with over 250 still alive when he wrote it. Paul was really putting his whole ministry (where he often risked his life) on the line by putting this in writing if it wasn't true.

And it would seem the first 14 or 15 people listed on this site met Jesus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_martyrs
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DOC, you seem to like lists. How about this one.
http://brainz.org/50-most-brilliant-atheists-all-time/
 
DOC said:
Actually the apostle Paul claimed to have met Jesus on the road to Damascus. And Paul also wrote Jesus appeared to all the apostles and at least 500 others with over 250 still alive when he wrote it. Paul was really putting his whole ministry (where he often risked his life) on the line by putting this in writing if it wasn't true.

And it would seem the first 14 or 15 people listed on this site met Jesus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_martyrs
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Paul claimed no such thing. Show me where Paul claimed to have met Jesus on the road to Damascus. He claimed that God revealed Jesus in him. We have some of Paul's writings, so we know what he claimed.
 
I care what a knighted respected archaeologist and former skeptic who spent 15 years digging and doing research in biblical lands (Sir William M. Ramsay) says about gospel writer Luke. If you don't, that is your right.
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Interesting that you don't much seem to care about the ~150 years of research done since then.

Even Christ couldn't convince everyone, which is why some decided to leave his group and some decided to nail him to a cross. Colitos has the right to his opinion, just as the people who left Christ's discipleship, and those who hung him to a cross had the free will right to their opinion. My 1600 posts are out there, people have the free will right to think of them as they choose. I asked Colitos for specific posts that caused him problems and he chose not to give any so I guess I can't do much more. I do hope he reads all my posts though if he hasn't. Or books by Norman Geisler, Ralph Muncaster, and Josh McDowell (and of course the bible).
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CARlitos. The poster's screen name is CARLITOS. Would you like it if I called you Cod?
 
DOC said:
Actually the apostle Paul claimed to have met Jesus on the road to Damascus. And Paul also wrote Jesus appeared to all the apostles and at least 500 others with over 250 still alive when he wrote it. Paul was really putting his whole ministry (where he often risked his life) on the line by putting this in writing if it wasn't true.

And it would seem the first 14 or 15 people listed on this site met Jesus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_martyrs
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Here comes the parade!
 
Soz. I meant the one with the red feathery things on it.

I like going out sometimes wearing wierd stuff like that just to freak people out.

I'm also thinking seriously about taking up the air trombone for similar reasons.

I am a bad person. William Mitchell Ramsay wouldn't like me at all.


;)
 
DOC said:
I care what a knighted respected archaeologist and former skeptic who spent 15 years digging and doing research in biblical lands (Sir William M. Ramsay) says about gospel writer Luke. If you don't, that is your right.
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Ian McKellen is a knight, too. It doesn't mean everything he opines is gold.

I'm not interested in the man's opinion, and neither should you. I'd like him to explain WHY the Luke writer is such a good historian: based on what evidence does he reach this conclusion ? He certainly doesn't seem to cite references more than any of the other gospel authors.
 
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