Gamera

If you were a 1st century inhabitant of the Roman Empire, rather powerful institutions would told you to make public observances to the divinity of the empiror, or be punished. That's even a more obvious type of political discourse than the ambiguous, debatable religious claims of the Christian scriptures, whose "inerrancy" is by the way a rather recent attribution.

Roger Pearse

When a book is printed, the method is just the same whether it contains a biblical text or an atheist tract. It should not be relevant to the discussion what the contents are, surely? If we do, then I fear that we will start to articulate, not whether books are printed correctly, but our feelings about the book and its contents.

The same applies to manuscript traditions.

All the best,

Roger Pearse

Sparrow

Are you suggesting that we regard Strobel's scholarship as equal to Ehrman's based on the fact that they were printed by the same method? Is the Book of Mormon as correct as the Quran and the Christian Bible and the Tanakh? Are you suggesting that we not consider any possible motives of the author or copyist to promote one view of a topic over another?

ksen

I think you are arguing against something Roger wasn't saying.