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Luke the careful historian tells it like it is

oldbadger

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
nPeace said:
Seems as though you aren't reading my posts really. Or perhaps you are not understanding what you read in them. Either one or the other, because your responses don't follow.
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Well you certainly did not dare to try and answer my three simple questions.

1. Mary pregnant for ten long years.
2. Joseph, Mary and child did not flee to Egypt.
3. Luke got the date of the last supper wrong.

And that's before we look at the whole gospel.
 
nPeace

nPeace

Veteran Member
oldbadger said:
Well you certainly did not dare to try and answer my three simple questions.

1. Mary pregnant for ten long years.
2. Joseph, Mary and child did not flee to Egypt.
3. Luke got the date of the last supper wrong.

And that's before we look at the whole gospel.
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No
No
No
 
lukethethird

lukethethird

unknown member
oldbadger said:
Very good.
I have already written about this on this thread, so I know that you don't read all the posts.



We have already discussed the above.

You are no investigator, Luke. We have already dismissed Luke's nativity account, even though he tried to assimilate it in to what I call 'Truth Pills' that is, referring to known events in the hope that this would help credence of the whole story.

But if you are a competent historian you can only dismiss that section of the book. All you have to do now is learn more about the rest of the book. Which I don't think that you have.

The Christian story is a 'faith' story which was built upon the lives and missions of a few people, none of them who wanted to discard their own religion, and so some of Luke's anecdotes and incidents are true........... he was using 'Truth Pills' in his story.

Oh......... and since he surely believed in what he was writing, or at least meant his letter to be for the good of its addressee, I don't think that Luke was a bad man.
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I read the NT, it's theology, (imagine my shock), the gospels read like fiction, like a fantasy novel, mildly entertaining, nothing to investigate, Sherlock, but go ahead, knock yourself out. BTW, I'm not an historian and in any case, I don't investigate what reads like fiction to see if something in there is true.
 
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oldbadger

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
lukethethird said:
I read the NT, it's theology, (imagine my shock), the gospels read like fiction, like a fantasy novel, mildly entertaining, but nothing to investigate, Sherlock, but go ahead, knock yourself out.
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Any historian can tell you that the letters of Paul and reports about what the apostles did 'after Jesus' is simple fact.
What they believed in was their faith, not yours or mine.

BTW, I'm not an historian .....................
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Yep, Luke........ we figured that.....
 
lukethethird

lukethethird

unknown member
oldbadger said:
Any historian can tell you that the letters of Paul and reports about what the apostles did 'after Jesus' is simple fact.
What they believed in was their faith, not yours or mine.


Yep, Luke........ we figured that.....
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Well, you better read your Bible and report back with the facts, we're counting on you to come up with some.
 
oldbadger

oldbadger

Skanky Old Mongrel!
lukethethird said:
Well, you better read your Bible and report back with the facts, we're counting on you to come up with some.
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Who is 'we'?

Trust me when I tell you that any miffers out there don't want to be shown any truth in the bible at all....... far too fundamentally extreme in their own fanatical beliefs. Denialists all.

But I can tell you that I only focus upon the laws of the Old Testament, interesting to me because I have always been interested in any of those laws which have survived the ages.

And I focus upon anything even remotely connected to both the Baptist's and the Jesus stories, not what happened before or after.

But you........ ? Why on earth do you waste your time writing posts on threads about subjects which you are ignorant about, and have no interest in? That seems weird to me.
 
lukethethird

lukethethird

unknown member
oldbadger said:
Who is 'we'?

Trust me when I tell you that any miffers out there don't want to be shown any truth in the bible at all....... far too fundamentally extreme in their own fanatical beliefs. Denialists all.

But I can tell you that I only focus upon the laws of the Old Testament, interesting to me because I have always been interested in any of those laws which have survived the ages.

And I focus upon anything even remotely connected to both the Baptist's and the Jesus stories, not what happened before or after.

But you........ ? Why on earth do you waste your time writing posts on threads about subjects which you are ignorant about, and have no interest in? That seems weird to me.
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So you have no facts, which explains why you are making this personal, good day, sir.
 
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