Diogenes wrote:This is the same dull 'higher textual criticism' that claims that the book of Danial was written after Christs death, because it predicts the timeframe of his birth.
I suppose you believe that too.
It's called vaticinium ex eventu and is one of the older tricks in the book.
It's called you not knowing what the fuck you are talking about, and it is one of the older tricks on these boards.
The 3rd century AD authorship theory was disproven when they found several copies of Daniel among the dead sea scrolls, the oldest manuscript of which was Carbon Dated at 165 BCE.
poptart wrote:
No other person in world history has come through the family line that was prophesied.
Nobody even remotely close to being in the game.
Frodo Baggins gives him one hell of a run for his money...and somebody wrote a book about it, so it must be true.
So Jesus never existed?
Aaaaand, we're still stuck on the "because the Bible says so" rationalization. The same rationalization that the thumpers can never, ever, ever, ever, ever get past and find another.
When it says so before the fact and/or when the persons writing it go to their deaths for something you claim they know to be a fraud...
Then an open-minded individual might want to consider it.
Diogenes wrote:This is the same dull 'higher textual criticism' that claims that the book of Danial was written after Christs death, because it predicts the timeframe of his birth.
I suppose you believe that too.
It's called vaticinium ex eventu and is one of the older tricks in the book.
It's called you not knowing what the fuck you are talking about, and it is one of the older tricks on these boards.
The 3rd century AD authorship theory was disproven when they found several copies of Daniel among the dead sea scrolls, the oldest manuscript of which was Carbon Dated at 165 BCE.
Nice timing there, Dins.
Hold on up there, cowboy. Carbon Dating? If you're going to give credence to that method in this instance, you've pretty much blown the rest of the biblical concepts of the age of the earth right out of the water.
