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To: jongaltsr

Wow! That makes the New Testament a veritable “leaning tower” of Piso.

You’ve got to be kidding! Check out the background of your authors - all the Pisos have family connection to Herod. And this is what you are basing your understanding of the Bible on!

Each book of the New Testament identifies its author (except Hebrews). These are the men who wrote the biblical texts. Not friends and family of Herod. A few specific examples of internal evidence come immediately to mind:

In the Gospel of John 20:24 we read, “This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.” The speaker (who is John) identifies himself as the author of the things being read in this Gospel. Ironically, you said, “...the Gospel of John was written by Justus Calpurnius Piso, a son of Arrius C. Piso. This son was very much like this father in his hatred towards humanity. “ The Gospel of John, which contains the verse, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...” you say was written by a hater of humanity.

In Gal 6:11 the writer (identified as Paul in Chapter 1 verse 1 of the book) says, “Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.” Clearly he is citing evidence as to the authorship of the letter to his readers. He is, in effect, saying, “Check out my handwriting for proof that it is me, Paul, who is writing to you.

In 1 Cor. 16 Paul again testifies to his having written the letter: 1Co 16:21 “The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.” He is writing to folks that know him...even his handwriting! There is so much internal evidence that supports the authorship/authenticity of scripture that, were any history book required to undergo the same scrutiny, it would fail. That’s because history books, like the ones you seem to enjoy so much, are written by men. God was the ultimate author of scripture and “the GOOD GUY” (forgive me, Lord) knows how to keep accurate accounts.

But more to the point, do you actually think that there would be any followers of Christ if your notion of scriptural authorship were even remotely possible? Do you? Come on, think about it for a moment. Don’t you think if this were true we would be seeing TV news special after TV news special (especially around significant days events - a new Pope, Easter, Christmas) showing the fallacy of the Christian faith!


57 posted on 04/02/2013 6:46:20 PM PDT by MarDav
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To: MarDav

Keep believing what your were taught and don’t try and find facts which will only cause you to be disillusioned and confused.

As for myself I accept hard facts, documented by hard evidence and not by tradition.


58 posted on 04/02/2013 8:09:15 PM PDT by jongaltsr
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