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tortoise1956 (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-13-11 11:46 PM Original message |
Which gospel came first? |
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pennylane100 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
1. Matthew, Mark ,Luke and John, |
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Rowdyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
2. What's left out of the bible is often as interesting as what was allowed in .... |
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OHdem10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:17 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. What has been left out would send people especially some |
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tortoise1956 (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 12:55 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. ah - the gnostic gospels! |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:09 AM Response to Original message |
3. sunset = death, sunrise = resurrection. that's the first gospel nt |
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checks-n-balances (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 12:46 AM Response to Original message |
5. Always wondered if there would be a chance to discuss this kind of thing |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-14-11 01:00 AM Response to Original message |
6. It's a practical certainty that of the canonicals, Mark is first. But: |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
8. Mark.. it is the shortest and most brutal of the gospels.. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 03:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Dated to between 65 and 70 CE |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 03:56 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Yep..the closest to the life of Jesus. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 05:03 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Probably no later than 100, at least in one form, |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 04:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. There are two tenuous assumptions there: |
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tortoise1956 (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 12:08 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. I don't think they are tenuous |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 06:14 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. They most certainly are tenuous. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 12:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Problems with your "tenuousness". |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 04:34 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. The crucifixion is most certainly not consistent. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 05:49 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Okay. In order, such as it is. |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 06:26 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. I find it incredible that you regard the Gospels as reliable historical documents. |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 07:44 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Your argument is based on an out-of-hand |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 08:38 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. A substantial measure of historical fact? |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 09:39 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Okay, let's take a parallel case. |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 10:19 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. LOL! Good one! |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 10:40 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. You're |
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tortoise1956 (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 10:51 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. Hey! Easy on Harry Potter! |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 12:30 AM Response to Reply #35 |
38. That same argument can be made of most myths. |
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tortoise1956 (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 10:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
33. I don't think you read my post before answering... |
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laconicsax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 12:44 AM Response to Reply #33 |
39. The "acceptance of a set of beliefs without some basis in fact." is called "religious faith." |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 06:01 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. "I can't think of a similar case in history," |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 06:19 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Mithraism is a special case |
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tortoise1956 (403 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 11:19 PM Response to Reply #26 |
36. Ok, ok, good points... |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 01:17 AM Response to Reply #36 |
40. I believe there was a real Jesus also. The intellectual position |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
10. There seem to be good textual arguments for a lost protogospel, now called Q, which can be |
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Leontius (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 05:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. I'm not completely sold on the Q text argument |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 05:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Whether it's called Q or something else, |
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Leontius (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 05:58 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Oral traditions are remarkably stable even thru hundreds of years |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-15-11 10:27 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. The issue is not mere "similarities" but the fact that Luke and Matthew agree word-for-word |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 08:48 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Exactly. |
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Leontius (380 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 12:56 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Sorry just not buying it . I know I'm not an expert in literature and |
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okasha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-16-11 01:34 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. It is extremely unlikely that any of the gospels was written |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-17-11 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
37. Mark, Matt and Luke, then John is last. |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-18-11 10:03 AM Response to Original message |
41. 2001, A Space Odyssey |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-27-11 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
42. Mark 1-8 (Joel Marcus | Anchor Bible Series, Doubleday | 2000), chapter "Gospel Relationships," |
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On the Road (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-31-11 01:27 AM Response to Original message |
43. It Depends Partly on Whether You're Asking About the Current Forms |
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