I am having computer troubles so I don't know when I will be able to respond again hopefully soon. Anybody need a good anchor?
I am sad to say this, but anyone who denies that the Holocaust occurred, is both ignoring, and ignorant of, history. Likewise anyone who denies that Christianity is based in actual history, places themselves so far to the extreme that they make the far left look Conservative.
"The Canonical Books of the New Testament.—The twenty-seven books of the New Testament are better supported than any ancient classic, both by a chain of external testimonies which reaches up almost to the close of the apostolic age, and by the internal evidence of a spiritual depth and unction which raises them far above the best productions of the second century........this does, of course, not supersede the necessity of criticism, nor is the evidence equally strong in the case of the seven Eusebian Antilegomena. The Tübingen and Leyden schools recognized at first only five books of the New Testament as authentic, namely, four Epistles of Paul-Romans, First and Second Corinthians, and Galatians—and the Revelation of John. But the progress of research leads more and more to positive results, and nearly all the Epistles of Paul now find advocates among liberal critics......The chief facts and doctrines of apostolic Christianity are sufficiently guaranteed even by those five documents, which are admitted by the extreme left of modern criticism."
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Disallowing any Christian witness of Christian history while accepting all other historians at face value is clearly applying a double standard. Only someone with a clear agenda of denial would do such a thing.
"I don't recall reading about any conspiracy theory from Remsberg."
His dismissal of Tacitus as a genuine amounts to exactly that. Does he have any concrete evidence for such an interpolation beyond that which is biased and circumstantial? Is there an extant copy of the manuscript that does not contain the disputed passage? No!
"Even the most critical historian can confidently assert that a Jew named Jesus worked as a teacher and wonder-worker in Palestine during the reign of Tiberius, was executed by crucifixion under the prefect Pontius Pilate and continued to have followers after his death." (Craig)
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To put it another way. Only the most biased and ignorant wannabe historian would deny.."that a Jew named Jesus worked as a teacher and wonder-worker in Palestine during the reign of Tiberius, was executed by crucifixion under the prefect Pontius Pilate and continued to have followers after his death." |
