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View Poll Results: Do you think the historical statements in the New Testament are accurate?
All of them are accurate. 2 4.00%
Some of them are accurate and some of them are not. 36 72.00%
None of them are accurate. 12 24.00%
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Old 07-10-2009, 07:14 PM   #31
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Not only am I not a Christian, I have never been a Christian and had no Christian upbringing.
Sorry, I was making a bad joke at your expense. Feel free to return the favor.
I didn't think the joke was at my expense and didn't feel I was being got at. I just thought that since the matter had been brought up I might as well put the facts on the record.
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The digression into Eusebius vs Hindu origins has been split off here
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Old 07-15-2009, 06:28 PM   #33
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I think the problem is that the question presented in the OP will give you just as much information as asking "Do you think the historical statements in the latest Spiderman movie are accurate?"
Well, that's easy enough to test.

http://www.freeratio.org/showthread.php?t=271268
And the results of the test, on their face, do not support your contention.
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Some diagrams concerning background chronologies such as the following for the NT Canon ....

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Old 07-19-2009, 02:24 AM   #35
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Some diagrams concerning background chronologies such as the following for the NT Canon ....

I see no connection between this and the question I posed.
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