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Lets see those modern educated very biased scholar's you are talking about is 2,000 years removed from the facts.?
Why would they be biased? Scholors who allow bias to creep into their research are going to get something wrong and another scholar is going to show them up in front of the whole community of scholars. They lose face and don't get promoted. What incentive would thay have to do that? As for 2,000 years removed, so what. They have the text. They have other texts to compare it to. They have the benefit of 2000 years of scholarly advances in literary, linguistic and textual analysis.
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Just who was those true believer folks trying to impress?
Hmm - They want to believe what confirms their faith as they understand it? Religious dogma is one of the strongest reasons for bias that prevents critical analysis. The history of the church is replete with examples of religious dogma trumping critical analysis.