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To: drpix
From your link: Estimates for the dates when the canonical gospel accounts were written vary significantly; and the evidence for any of the dates is scanty. Because the earliest surviving complete copies of the gospels date to the 4th century and because only fragments and quotations exist before that,
72 posted on 09/18/2012 1:27:55 PM PDT by Red Badger (Anyone who thinks wisdom comes with age is either too young or too stupid to know the difference....)
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To: Red Badger
The difference is clear, the 4th century copies of the real Gospels are widely ackowledge to be copies of text written in the 1st and early 2nd century. But the "scholar" offering this 4th century Gnostic discovery has no basis to claim that it is a copy of text written earlier.
79 posted on 09/18/2012 1:38:26 PM PDT by drpix
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