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Witherington believes God uses antiquities to bring humanity closer to Biblical truth
I would almost prefer that this be a joke, but it was on a news site. The Shanks-Witherington Book Tour Quote:
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And what does this have to do with Cold Fusion?
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Will anyone take this ossuary seriously after reading this? |
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Re: Witherington believes God uses antiquities to bring humanity closer to Biblical truth
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Unless you want to argue that Shanks and Witherington were just pandering to a conservative Texas congregation. DNA from the shroud???? Remember that internet hoax of a few years back - cloning Jesus? |
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Just another attempt to "poison the well." Of course, you've got the wrong well and no poison. |
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Heavy lifting scholarly work? You mean running the ossuary by a few experts to get a superficial ok, rushing to the newspapers before a full examination by the scholarly community?
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But as usual you have completely changed the subject. The fact is that neither Shanks nor Witherington are the leading scholars who have promoted the authenticy of the ossuary. They have publicized it, but that says nothing about the authenticity of the ossuary. Nor would a horrible understanding of forensic science be very relevant to an expert in a completely foreign field. |
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Correction: _Is_ being done. We still await the "heavy lifting scholarly work" from the two IAA commissions. If the IGS did any scholarly work, either they, or the numbskulls at BAR, butchered it and arrived at, or alluded to, some unwarrented conclusions before it got into print. It had to be corrected and clarified by those outside the IGS. So far as I know, those corrections have never made it into print journal format. Quote:
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I'm _still_ waiting to hear why my comment that both Raymond Brown and John P. Meier are/were invested and practicing Roman Catholic priests was "poisoning the well". Perhaps you could explain that for me, too? godfry n. glad |
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