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From: gnewman@iglou.com (Greg 'Bonz' Newman)
Subject: Re: Noah & other bible myths
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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 03:34:29 GMT
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On Fri, 26 Jul 1996 08:57:29 -0700, David King
<dlking@ocean.st.usm.edu> wrote:

>Patrick Juola wrote:

>> >I see.  And I suppose the Nazi holacost of the Jews was a myth too.
>> >Look, it is very easy to make flippant statements like the above.
>> >It's done all the time.  It's called revisionist history.
>> 
>> So cite evidence.  In the case of the Nazi holocaust, we've got (living)
>> eyewitness accounts, as well as substantial documentary proof.  In
>> the case of Jesus, we have....
>>         um,
>>                 help me out here....

>Duh - believe it or not, Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
>and John were all living eyewitnesses back when they
>wrote their books. 

 None of these books have known authors.They are anonymous.

 Even so, we have no idea who John might have been, so we have no
idea whether he knew Jesus or not. Luke certainly did not know
him. That leaves Matthew and Mark. Mark was apparently written
first,  then Matthew, then Mark was lost, then the version of
Mark we NOW have was written.

>Are you saying that in about 40 more years you won't 
>believe in the Nazi holocaust because then there won't
>be any living survivors? 

 No, I am saying that I doubt that people who knew Jesus
firsthand had much to do with the bible. Look at how much of the
NT was written by Paul, who never met and may not have known of
the Jesus myths.

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