Toto

Please do not throw around the term "minimalist." It has a specific reference to a school of thought regarding the archeology of ancient Israel that is not applicable here. For reference, please read this essay by Philip Davies.

Minimalist

True. Minimalism (which even I don't accept in full) concerns the OT not the NT.

As for Porphyry...


You mean he was born in a city which had been scraped down to bare rock and never re-built? How is that possible?

Johnny Skeptic

Message to arnoldo: Please reply to my post #332.

arnoldo

Richbee's Evasion Continues . Just a quick question on Nebby's 13 year siege. Is it the opposing view that the siege was against the Island Tyre or the mainland "Ushu"?

arnoldo

Sorry, I know you allow terms like fundies and inneranists though. Can I call y'all skepies?

Toto

It's not a question of insults or pet names. Fundie and inerrantist have fairly well defined meanings. It appears that you were misusing the term "minimalism" to mean something other that its common understood meaning.

I'm still waiting for you to actually do some homework and post something other than artless questions. That would be

Johnny Skeptic

Message to arnoldo: Please reply to my post #332.

arnoldo

Did Nebby lay siege to Tyre or Ushu for 13 years?

Minimalist

Tyre. And it is still there. And it was still there for Alexander. And it was still there when the Romans came calling. And it was still there when "Matthew" says Jesus dropped by for tea. And so on...up to the present.

Johnny Skeptic

It doesn't matter since 100% percent disputable prophecies in any religious book is sufficient evidence that the God(s) of that religious book does not exist. No rational God would make even one disputable prophecy because that would harm his reputation.

Micah 5:2 says “But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.” If Micah had predicted that the messiah would rule a heavenly kingdom instead of an earthly kingdom like Micah misled the Jews to believe, and had predicted that the messiah would heal people, and that the messiah would be crucified, buried, and rise from the dead in three days, and that Pontius Pilate would become the Roman governor of Palestine, and that Herod would become the King of Judea, would you like to claim that not even one more Jew would have accepted Jesus?

If Pat Robertson accurately predicted when and where some natural disasters would occur, would you like to claim that not even one non-Christian would become a Christian as a result?

If you refuse to reply to this post, I will repost it as frequently as necessary in order to show the undecided crowd that you are not nearly as confident of your argumments as you pretend you are.