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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Take a class on the historical/critical analysis of the NT and you will see why. You can easily see where the authors copied each other and copied ideas from other sources. You can also see where they inserted their own perspective. Using what we know about the period as a whole from contemporary sources, you can begin to piece together why they might have done that. Still, that doesn't mean it doesn't offer anything worthwhile. It just takes the supernatural element out of it.[/quote]

I've taken such a class, and it was fascinating. I disagree it takes the supernatural out of it, though, but obviously that's a personal response. Instead, it's sort of like any event that involves witnesses, where some witnesses are going to remember different things, or are going to remember the same things differently. This happens every day with witnesses in courts. I take your point that some of the gospel authors did their own editing, but the larger consistencies among the accounts witness to an underlying truth, IMO.[/quote]

the historical-critical method is absolutely non- supernatural.  Historians do not study things which there is no evidence -- like the supernatural.  They can report on what people say, but do not make historical determination of events for which there can be no historical evidence. [/quote]

I am the OP from 9:40. An example of what I was talking about is the fact that there were *other* itinerant teachers traveling around the Roman Empire espousing their views of the world at around the same time, both before and after Jesus walked the earth. Thus, we can see that Jesus was following in a time honored tradition in this respect. Like Jesus, their adherents spread tales of their supernatural daring dos as a way of gaining new supporters. Sort of like how medieval jousters occasionally had someone to trumpet their achievements before the competition and call for Huzzahs. None of this would have been seen as suspect in that time period because it would have been understood in a particular context. None of these people are famous like Jesus is today however because no Roman emperors converted to their religion. This is just a tiny example.[/quote]

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