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LamarkNewAge
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Message 746 of 1540 (823859)
11-18-2017 12:24 AM
Reply to: Message 743 by Faith
11-17-2017 11:15 PM


Re: Can you stick to the issue of evidence for miracles Faith?
quote:
have all kinds of evidence that the Bible is trustworthy and its critics are anything but.
What is the evidence then?
Acts wasn't written by an observer, as even the ICR admits.
(I forgot to link that quote to it's site, and now can't find it, so I put " Luke’s aim was to show a progression of conversion " into Google , and still can't find the site. I did find a quote from the Institute for Creation Research)
quote:
his conversion, the detailed account of the varied ...
Doctor Luke | The Institute for Creation Research
Doctor Luke | The Institute for Creation Research
Lukethe author of the third Gospel and the book of Actsis of special interest for ... He had not been present at the events described in his Gospel, so had not ... said to have been converted partially through his surprised realization of the precise ... of Acts agree that one important purpose was, indeed, that of apologetics.
Nice to see an admission that the author wasn't an observer.
And it was apologetic.
And everybody must admit that it was written no earlier than 62 AD. (because it ends there)
So written decades later, by somebody who wasn't there, and it was apologetic (history) in nature.
(There seems to be an obsession with bringing a "Holy Spirit" into the mix of early (what we now call) Apostolic Christianity, and it seems like it was previously lacking in the Jewish Christian communities)
What about the Samaritan evidence though?
Where is the evidence for this great Christian city of Samaria?
Born of miracles (according to Acts)

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Message 768 of 1540 (823896)
11-18-2017 11:27 PM


Here are links on the history issues.
Richard Bauckham is a good historian on this issue (he is a major expert on just about everything concerning Early Christian Origins)
Here is an example of where he is referenced.
quote:
This consensus is attested by evidence from the writings of early church fathers. The first of these was Papias of Hierapolis, who wrote in the first third of the second century AD, but whose writing only survives in quotations by Eusebius, a church historian writing later in the fourth century. In one of these quotations, Papias cites an elder who had asserted the following about the authorship of the second Gospel:
Mark became Peter’s interpreter [hermneuts] and wrote accurately all that he remembered, not, indeed, in order, of the things said or done by the Lord. For he had not heard the Lord, nor had he followed him, but later on, as I said, followed Peter, who used to give teaching as necessity demanded but not making, as it were, an arrangement [syntaxin] to the Lord’s oracles [logion or sayings], so that Mark did nothing wrong in thus writing down single points as he remembered them. For to one thing he gave attention, to leave out nothing of what he had heard and to make no false statements in them. (Papias ap. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 3.39.15; emphasis added)[11]
Despite the fact that Papias wrote within two generations of the time that the Gospel was written and claims to have heard from those who knew the Apostles and other eyewitnesses, some scholars have questioned Papias’ testimony about both Mark and his connection with Peter.[12] Richard Bauckham, however, has reaffirmed Papias’ basic reliability, demonstrating that he drew his information about the Gospels from either eyewitnesses or those who knew them firsthand.[13]
Papias not only identified the author of the Gospel as a Mark but also claimed that this Mark was the interpreter of the Apostle Peter, though whether by hermneuts he meant that Mark interpreted for Peter when he spoke or translated for him as scribe is unclear.[14] Papias’ statement also suggests that because Peter preached according to what each situation demanded, Mark’s account, too, might not have been in strictly chronological or perhaps literary order (syntaxin).[15] Irenaeus, writing in the second half of the first century, confirmed Papias’ basic assertions when he wrote, After [Peter and Paul’s deaths], Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, did also hand down to us in writing what had been preached by Peter (Adversus Haereses 3.1.1; emphasis added).[16] Another source, the Anti-Marcionite Prologue to Mark (ca. AD 160—180), supports the assertion that Mark wrote down Peter’s testimony in Italy only after the Apostle’s death.[17] On the other hand, Clement of Alexandria (ca. AD 150—216) wrote that
When Peter had publicly preached the word [kryxantos to logon] at Rome, and by the spirit had proclaimed the Gospel, those present, who were many, exhorted Mark, as one who had followed him for a long time and remembered what had been spoken, to make a record of what was said; and he did this, and distributed the Gospel among those that asked him. And when the matter came to Peter’s knowledge, he neither strongly forbade it nor urged it forward (Clement of Alexandria ap. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 6.14.5—7; emphasis added).[18]
....
[12] See, for instance, the doubts of Marcus, Mark 1—8, 22—23, and, to a lesser extent, the hesitancy to accept or reject Papias. Donahue and Harrington, Gospel of Mark, 41. Such suspicion seems, in part, to be a function of a larger trend in historical Jesus studies to be suspicious to varying degrees regarding the reliability of the Gospels, usually by questioning the reliability of their sources. Partly because Papias’ own description of how he gathered his information suggests that he preferred what he heard rather than what he could find in books (Papias at. Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 3.39.4; Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History I, 293), some have in fact seen Papias as getting his information from a chain of possibly unreliable oral transmission.
[13] Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006), 15—34, 202—4. Bauckham differentiates carefully between oral tradition, which is anonymous and usually spans many generations, and oral history, which is more immediate and includes eyewitnesses.
[14] Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, 205—14.
[15] See Bauckham’s discussion as to whether syntaxin here refers to chronological order or an aesthetic, literary arrangement. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, 217—21.
[16] Irenaeus, Ante-Nicene Fathers. Volume 1: The Apostolic Fathers, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus (Peabody, MA, 1885, repr. 2004), 414.
[17] R. G. Heard, The Old Gospel Prologues, Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 6 (1955): 4; Hengel, Studies in the Gospel of Mark, 3.
[18] Eusebius, The Ecclesiastical History II, trans. J. E. L. Oulton, Loeb Classical Library 265 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1932), 49.
Religious Studies Center
Put this into search engines
" richard bauckham gopels history witness "
The first link leads to a download.
https://byustudies.byu.edu/file/9472/download?token=w4dpdMvp
quote:
Richard Bauckham. Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as ...
https://byustudies.byu.edu/file/9472/download?token=w4dpdMvp
Undoubtedly, Professor Richard Bauckham's most recent contribution will add life to an already ... discusses the criteria for writing history in first-century Judea and in the ... Gospel would have hidden or obscured an apostolic witness. This is in ...
The Gospels as Eyewitness Accounts - Richard Bauckham
Page not found – Richard Bauckham
Are the Gospels history — or legend, or myth, or mere propaganda? Quite .... on Mark's Gospel, it would certainly seem that Papias is a good, early witness to.
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as ... - Amazon.com
Amazon.com
Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness. Richard ... The Historical Reliability of the New Testament: Countering the Challenges to ... Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing ...
The Disciple Jesus Loved: Witness, Author, Apostle A Response ...
Page not found | Institute for Biblical Research
Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewit- .... Fourth Gospel in the History of Modern Biblical Criticism, in Studies on John and ...
10. Eyewitness Testimony in Mark's Gospel | Bible.org
10. Eyewitness Testimony in Mark’s Gospel | Bible.org
May 13, 2008 ... Mark's Gospel is all about Jesus. ... about the Gospels; and in this article it is Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as ...
11. Eyewitness Testimony in John's Gospel | Bible.org
11. Eyewitness Testimony in John's Gospel | Bible.org
May 13, 2008 ... The "Eyes" Have It!Often the Gospel of John has been interpreted as having only ... So the unnamed disciple in 1:35-39, according to Bauckham, .... Recall also in Acts that the Greek words for testimony, witness, testify ... First, ancient history writing placed emphasis on the historian's ..... Richard Bauckham.
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses - Wikipedia
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses - Wikipedia
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony is a book written by biblical scholar and theologian Richard Bauckham and published in 2006 ... It does so by presenting the historical argument that the synoptic Gospels are based "quite closely" on the testimony of eyewitnesses, while one (the Gospel of ...
They Really Saw Him | Christianity Today
They Really Saw Him | Christianity Today
Jun 7, 2007 ... Richard Bauckham argues that the Gospels are based on eyewitness ... I think it helps us to understand what sort of history we have in the Gospels. ... That the witnesses were insiders, that they were deeply affected by the ...
history we have in the Gospels. ... That the witnesses were insiders, that they were deeply affected by the ...
Richard Bauckham on
Chrisendom: Richard Bauckham on Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
Nov 13, 2006 ... Richard Bauckham on Jesus and the Eyewitnesses ... that the eyewitnesses of the events of the Gospel history remained, throughout their lives, ... One can try to test the reliability of witnesses, but then they have to be trusted.
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as ... - Google Books
Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony - Richard Bauckham - Google Books
Sep 22, 2008 ... Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the ... Finally, Bauckham challenges readers to end the classic division between the historical Jesus and the Christ of faith, ... The Witness of the Beloved Disciple.
Also
" ancti marcionite prologue peter italy mark "
[quote] Anonymous, The "Anti-Marcionite" prologues to the gospels
Anonymous, The "Anti-Marcionite" prologues to the gospels
The "Anti-Marcionite" prologues to the gospels. ... Mark recorded, who was called Colobodactylus, because he had fingers that were too small for the height ... After the death of Peter himself, the same man wrote this gospel in the parts of Italy.
The Latin prologues. - TextExcavation.
The Latin prologues.
Aug 23, 2007 ... The anti-Marcionite and Monarchian prologues, presented in the original Greek and ... Truly, after the departure of Peter, this gospel which he himself put together ... The Lucan prologue, extant in both Greek and Latin. ... that according to Matthew in Judea, but that according to Mark in Italy, instigated by the ...
Anti-Marcionite Prologues - Early Christian Writings
Anti-Marcionite Prologues
Also with respect to the so-called Anti-Marcionite Gospel Prologues serious ... Only Prologues for Mark, Luke, and John are extant; the Prologue for Luke is also ...
then
quote:
Prologues to the Gospels - Mark - Unsettled Christianity
Prologues to the Gospels - Mark - Unsettled Christianity
Nov 19, 2009 ... The Anti-Marcionite Prologue: ... When he was requested at Rome by the brethren, he briefly wrote this gospel in parts of Italy. ... Truly, after the departure of Peter, this gospel which he himself put together having been taken ...
the anti-marcionite prologues - Theological Studies
http://cdn.theologicalstudies.net/7/7.3/7.3.2.pdf
tains that the old prologues to Mark, Luke, and John were written shortly after the Marcionite ... Anti-Marcionite prologue to Mark ..... Italy, and Patricius was very common. Further ... interpreter nor says that he wrote after Peter's death. It contains.
then
quote:
Is Mark's Gospel an Early Memoir of the Apostle Peter? | Cold Case ...
http://coldcasechristianity.com/...moir-of-the-apostle-peter
Jan 17, 2014 ... An Anti-Marcionite Prologue affirmed Peter's connection to Mark ... death of Peter himself he wrote down this same gospel in the regions of Italy.
The Anti-Marcionite Prologues to the Gospels — Biblical Scholarship
The Anti-Marcionite Prologues to the Gospels – Biblical Scholarship
Aug 12, 2014 ... In fact, only the prologue to John contains a clear anti-Marcion ... The prologues to Mark and John are found only in Latin while one Greek ... After the death of Peter himself, the same man wrote this gospel in the parts of Italy.
9. The Petrine Krygma and the Gospel according to Mark ...
Religious Studies Center
[16] Another source, the Anti-Marcionite Prologue to Mark (ca. AD 160—180), supports the assertion that Mark wrote down Peter's testimony in Italy only after the ...
An Introduction to the Gospel Of Mark | Bible.org
An Introduction to the Gospel Of Mark | Bible.org
Jul 3, 2004 ... The Anti-Marcionite Prologue to Mark (A.D. 160-180) mentions Mark as ... Peter himself he wrote down this same gospel in the regions of Italy..
The Gospel According to Peter: Mark and 1 & 2 Peter - Ibiblio
http://www.ibiblio.org/freebiblecommentary/pdf/EN/VOL02.pdf
The Anti-Marcionite Prologue to Mark, written about a.d. 180, identifies Peter as the eyewitness ... It also states that Mark wrote the Gospel from Italy after Peter's.

  
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Message 823 of 1540 (823996)
11-21-2017 12:11 AM
Reply to: Message 822 by Faith
11-20-2017 11:04 PM


"Whqtever the Bible includes is the truth. Period." Which "Bible?"
Amazingly, Faith takes a European work (that existed not at all in the 1st century) and worships it.
"Gospel According to John" wasn't named until the post 170 A.D. time ( Muratorian Fragment and Irenaeus)
It wasn't quoted until circa 150 A.D. by the European Justin Martyr.

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Message 826 of 1540 (824000)
11-21-2017 12:58 AM
Reply to: Message 825 by Faith
11-21-2017 12:44 AM


WHAT ABOUT THE FIRST CENTURIES FAITH?
quote:
You and others here impute my views to me as some odd idiosyncratic invention of my own, but every day i hear sermons that share my point of view, I own hundreds of books that share it, my entire Christian life has revolved around the traditional understanding of the Bible, traditional theology. My view of the Bible is as traditional and orthodox as you can get. There are over a million sermons on the site Sermon Audio by preachers who share the point of view I try to represent faithfully here. I believe I represent it honestly.
do you even care about the evidence from closer to the source?
I just googled a book (to see what information I could find on it) and found free online stuff about the 2nd century
"amazon Gospel Traditions in the Second Century, ed. William L. Peterson (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989"
quote:
Gospel traditions in the second century : origins ...
Results for 'ti:"gospel traditions in the second century"' [WorldCat.org]...
Gospel traditions in the second century : origins, recensions, ... Gospel traditions in the second century. ... Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1989 (OCoLC) ...
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[PDF]
FACTOR ANALYSIS: A NEW METHOD FOR ... -
Index of /library/car/cardigital/Periodicals/AUSS...
... A NEW METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING NEW TESTAMENT GREEK ... in the Second Century, in Gospel Traditions in ... , ed. William L. Peterson (Notre Dame:
.
Divergent Gospel Traditions in Clement of Alexandria
(PDF) Divergent Gospel Traditions in Clement of Alexandria and other Authors of the Second Century | Annewies van den Hoek - Academia.edu...
... GOSPEL TRADITIONS IN CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA AND ... the Second Century", in Gospel Traditions in the Second Century, William L. PETERSON (ed.), Notre Dame, 1989; ...
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Hurtado, Larry -The earliest christian artifacts ...
Issuu - Page not found...
In Gospel Traditions in the Second Century: ... ed. William L. Petersen. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989. Pp ... Oxford: Ox ford University Press, ...
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[PDF]
The Characterization of Jesus in Codex W -
muse.jhu.edu/article/195174/pdf
The Characterization of Jesus in Codex W ... in Gospel Traditions in the Second Century, ed. William L. Petersen (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989
Published in:
Journal of Early Christian Studies 2006
Authors:
Justin R Howell
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
About:
Humanities
Gospel traditions in the second century - Home - Trove
trove.nla.gov.au/work/17455589?selectedversion=NBD6780919
... William L (ed) Get this edition; User ... Online version Gospel traditions in the second century. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1989 ...
then without amazon on Bing
quote:
Gospel traditions in the second century : origins ...
Results for 'ti:"gospel traditions in the second century"' [WorldCat.org]...
Gospel traditions in the second century : origins, recensions, ... Gospel traditions in the second century. ... Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1989 (OCoLC) ...
.
This Tragic Gospel by AW Slinkard - issuu
Issuu - Page not found
An important second- or third-century document elaborating ... in W. L. Peterson (ed.), Gospel Traditions in the ... University of Notre Dame Press, 1989), ...
.
Gospel traditions in the second century - Home - Trove
trove.nla.gov.au/work/17455589?selectedversion=NBD6780919
... William L (ed) Get this edition; User ... Online version Gospel traditions in the second century. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1989 ...
Hurtado, Larry -The earliest christian artifacts ...
Issuu - Page not found...
In Gospel Traditions in the Second Century: ... ed. William L. Petersen. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989. Pp ... Oxford: Ox ford University Press, ...
Tampering with the Text: Footnotes by Andreas J ...
Christianity - Beliefs and History of Faith in God and Jesus Christ Bible
Read Tampering with the Text: Footnotes by Andreas ... Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989), ... in Gospel Traditions of the Second Century, ed ...
.
Tampering with the Text: Footnotes - Crosswalk.com
Grow in Faith with Daily Christian Living Articles
... Scholars Press, 1989), ... ed. William L. Petersen (Notre Dame: University of Notre ... Gospels," in Gospel Traditions of the Second Century, ed ...
.
Textual Layers — Peter Lorenz's Blog - Page 2
https://peterlorenz.me/tag/textual-layers/page/2
... Cambridge University Press, ... The Western Text in the Second Century in Gospel Traditions in the Second Century (ed. William L. Petersen; Notre Dame: ...
Do you care to study any of this?
Honestly.

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Message 849 of 1540 (824071)
11-22-2017 12:14 PM
Reply to: Message 848 by kbertsche
11-22-2017 12:03 PM


Re: "Whqtever the Bible includes is the truth. Period." Which "Bible?"
It could date as late as 170 A.D.
Everybody took the earliest possible date and keeps saying 125 A.D.
I think the Gospel probably did exist by 100 AD though I have zero evidence.
But Polycarp did not know about it, and neither did Clement of Rome and Ignatius.
Polycarp wrote his epistle at the same time as Ignatius (107-108 or 117).
It is very doubtful that Papias knew about it (the only argument fundamentalists make is that he had a unique order of Apostles listed that was exactly the same as the order given in John's Gospel)
The issue was "which Bible?" if one wants to worship certain works of man titled "The Bible".

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Message 1408 of 1540 (826039)
12-20-2017 11:22 PM


The issue of the oldest Gospel fragment came up. Here is a recent article on fragment
I uncritically mentioned the so-called discovery of a Mark fragment that's dates from 80-130 CE.
It is not demonstrated.
quote:
Why did the Museum of the Bible’s scholars destroy ancient Egyptian artifacts?
Christian apologists say they found New Testament fragments in mummy masks. It’s a dubious claim.
by Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden
November 29, 2017
Why did the Museum of the Bible’s scholars destroy ancient Egyptian artifacts? | The Christian Century

  
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Message 1412 of 1540 (826090)
12-22-2017 12:45 AM
Reply to: Message 1411 by Faith
12-21-2017 11:36 PM


What was Christianity before the Roman Empire?
quote:
[people are] so supremely ignorant of Christian theology I don't know where you [or they] get your [or their]nerve to make such comments.
Jesus was addressing his disciples in the upper room after the Passover meal, when he told them they were to love one another as He had loved them...and His love for them was about to be shown in His death on the cross. It is very clear that He is addressing His own followers who were later dubbed Christians.
According to the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew (which even the Roman Catholic Jerome admitted was the original), he said his sacrifice replaced all meat eating, and in fact it was a grave sin to eat meat.
Remember to distinguish between the "Christianity" then and the Christianity now.
I doubt that even Jerome would recognize what so called "Christianity" is today.
And that man lived 100 years into the Christian Roman Empire.
And the religion was undisputedly "Jewish" during the time of Jesus (all the way to his death).
( modern so-called "fundamentalist" Christians should wash their blasphemous mouth out with soap if they dare to describe the Apostles of Jesus as having any religion that is in any way, shape, or form like what passes for "Christianity" today)
Even the 4th-5th century Christian scholar Jerome would disown those who TODAY claim to follow the Bible he wrote (Protestants, Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, etc.).
(Amazing that of all the totally destroyed early Christian documents, the NOW absent documents also include the original Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, so who the heck has the right to call today's "Christianity" authentic?)
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Message 1434 of 1540 (826181)
12-24-2017 12:41 AM
Reply to: Message 1431 by Percy
12-23-2017 2:54 PM


Obama the "Deporter-in-chief"!
I had no clue I would find myself commenting on any of this talk.
But, something came up.
quote:
It's well known that deportations under Obama were up. It was one of the things Democrats consistently criticized him for, and it was frequently reported in the press. Or maybe sites like Drudge and Breitbart aren't as thorough and honest in reporting the news as your think? Something to consider.
I have a lot of trouble in the Midwest telling people that Obama was criticized a lot over immigration policy out east.
I often hear Trump fanatics say, "Obama deported so many people, but liberals never attacked him".
I have to tell people that there was a lot of criticism but it seems suddenly to get dropped while 1 million other issues get brought up.
This is a real issue here.

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