Can We Trust the New Testament?
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To be continued...
Continued from the last post above↑
THE CYNICISM OF THE FOOLISH
This might be ignored as the lapse of an individual who should have known better, were it not part of a widespread tendency to accept in the area of Christian origins judgements and constructions that anywhere else would be laughed out of court. There has been a whole series of titles such as The Nazarene Gospel Restored, The Passover Plot, The Sacred Mushroom, presented to the public by reputable publishers as serious historical contributions. It is hardly surprising that confidence has been eroded in our capacity now to say anything objective at all. When a sympathetic scientist writing on popular Christianity can say that preference for another view of Jesus over that of The Sacred Mushroom is 'only speculation on my part', he is saying that the sort of controls that he would apply anywhere in his field just do not exist here. This represents the abdication of the scientific method, not its conclusion.
To be continued...
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