Thread: Would you delete a copy of the Koran?
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Old 10-04-2010, 03:29 PM   #339
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe View Post
All of the Gospels, except for Luke, are anonymous. The names given them were ascribed by tradition. None of the authors were eye-witnesses. Mark, the first to be written, and which served as one of the templates for Luke and Matthew, is believed by critical scholars to have been composed after 70 CE, about ten years after Philemon, the last of the seven books that can be reliably attributed to Paul.

Modern scholarship doesn't always gel with fundamentalist beliefs.
Just FYI: I'm not a "fundamentalist."

Be that as it may, we already had a similar discussion along these lines in this thread, and I disagreed with many of your assertions, particularly your use of vague and inflammatory language instead of actual citations: "critical scholars" -- what's this mean? who is a "critical scholar"? If a "scholar" disagrees, are they still "critical" or just a "fundamentalist"?

A bit of what you say here I actually agree with, and know where it comes from, but I'm not interested in going down this road a second time. The other discussion still exists for anyone interested in looking. It is almost the same as this one certainly will become, and includes citations from both sides.

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