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Duvduv · 09-28-2012, 07:15 AM

There is nothing to hang on to. There is simply analysis, inference and observation. Period. However, you are so devoted to a second century Justin that it seems as if it's part of your own religion.

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Why are some folks hanging on with dear life to the legend of a guy named Justin allegedly living and writing in the second century? Is it an article of some faith or something?

Who do you hang on to??? Irenaeus, Eusebius, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline writings, the Nicene Creed???

Duvduv · 09-28-2012, 07:16 AM

The problem remains that scholars do not sufficiently subject the writings of apologists to the same critical eye they subject the NT texts to.

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....and context within which they are claiming to exist.......i.e. the time sequence, the time period in which they supposedly were written, the gaps and inconsistencies, and not just the use of language or "findings" of this or that canonical Christian connection......

These are factors that any historian of any era has to consider. I'm not sure what the point is here.

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