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11-21-2007, 05:33 PM | #41 |
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I was trying not to use an AiG source as then, it just gets blown out of the water without being looked at for just being AiG :s |
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11-21-2007, 05:39 PM | #43 |
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oops...nevermind.
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11-21-2007, 05:42 PM | #44 |
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Oh, it's been looked at plenty of times. Most of these arguments are as old as the hills and have been gone thru countless times. AiG is dissmissed out of hand because it offers nothing new.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarp so we are not talking fictional sources here? |
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(To be fair, Metzger's subject here is how books came to be included in the Biblical canon. He's less concerned with exploring the authorship in this instance.) The take-away here, though, is that favorably quoting, alluding to, mentioning, or otherwise invoking one of the Gospels is not the same as authenticating the sources of the Gospels. All it really says is that those Gospels, in some form, were in circulation at the times the church fathers were writing. regards, NinJay |
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I have kept looking over to these posts this evening waiting for a response to your posts that would have some verifiable information in it that would back up some of the anti-anti-anti-theist assertions made in this thread. So far, absolutely nothing! By the way, I went to the AiG museum a week ago last Saturday. The place was mobbed with people. Nothing new in it either, but it was truly interesting anyway. A criteria for something being correct is not that it is new, per Dogfish. Thanks, |
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(And as to Polycarp, when he says in Phil. 12 to "pray for kings", the only kings were the Roman emperors and the only time they were plural was after 160 CE with Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, so Polycarp was writing his letter after 160. He's of no help to you.) spin |
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