When the author so assertively says in the introduction
Inasmuch as a number of writers have essayed to draw up a narrative of the established facts in our religion 2 exactly as these have been handed down to us by the original eyewitnesses who were in the service of the Gospel Message, 3 and inasmuch as I have gone carefully over them all myself from the very beginning, I have decided, O Theophilus, to write them out in order for your excellency, 4 to let you know the solid truth of what you have been taught.
He is relaying what he has read or others have said. And nowhere does he claim inspiration from anywhere, not even from a joint.
Whose work is he referring to? Who had written these earlier gospels and why doesn’t he mention their names?
And if he has gone carefully through them, let’s for the sake of argument say it was Mathew he read, why does his genealogy of Jesus H. Christ differ from it?
There are 7 miracles only Luke knows where he got. Did he make them up? If he is a historian, does he treat of history when he writes of miracles? Should we take him seriously as a historian?
“Should we take him seriously as a historian?” No. 🙂
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Is this about the Skywalker family? 😀
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well, at least the “miracles” would be a lot more fun.
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But does this mean people should be wearing light swords around their necks?
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Only if a member of the family commits suicide while claiming to save the world
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better than a torture device, eh? 🙂 and yes, everything in the world has been done: https://www.etsy.com/market/light_saber_necklace
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This, as Club says, would be better but no. It’s about walking on water and cursing fig trees
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In the Christian mind, the fact that the book survived and made it into the Bible is proof enough. There are plenty of others that survived too, but after damage control and inspired scrutiny they were left out, while this self admitted book of hear-says get a pass because it’s in a sort of agreement with three other books that can’t be confirmed either. Make sense Mak?
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Even beyond what you say … there are books the “damage control” people rejected, yet Christians swear by some of the content and teach it to their young’ns..
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Only the books that made the cut are god breathed. The others are god seen or something
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Hey! My cousin’s best friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s brother’s girlfriend heard from this guy whose mother knows a guy who’s friends with a girl who spoke with a man who claimed he was Jesus in front of the local McDonald’s.
What more proof do you need?
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I hear that the attestation for the hadith must go back to Abu Bakr. Your cousin’s best friend should work on her attestation to Adam to be accepted
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