Sorry lads, was feeling a wee bit peckish this morning. My bad, but happens to the best of us.
It did happen. I had to disable a setting somewhere, which remedied it. Was still incredibly strange to see
Ah yes, the memories of not being able to put stuff in my documents because "onedrive is out of space" which is when I figured out what onedrive was
"My dad was a toolmaker"
Moving the goalposts
Do you know Jesus
By "well after the fact", it's still within the lifetime of eyewitnesses. Contrasted with other historical records, it's pretty good. Like Alexander the Great being written about 800 years after the fact, or some details about Julius Caesar being written down 200 years after the fact which nobody disputes. For something we can archaeologically prove which also happened at the time - the pompeii disaster - there is one record 30 years later. Despite it being an event witnessed by hundreds of thousands and likely having influential romans among it's victims. You're really overestimating the frequency of writings and documentation from the first century. In which the New Testament is abnormal in that it has a high frequency. So something that clearly was a big deal did happen. The traditions as well carried across societies, so must have been rooted in fact. As for the larger corpus - those were the centuries later forgeries that were removed for that reason - because they were much later and not seen as reliable. Some of them were attributed to more important figures also, like Thomas. So the early Church clearly cared about accuracy.
The four gospels read as eyewitness accounts and reports of a real person, not as fables and allegories.
Canada literally did it
It's not too late
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