To me the paradox of Jesus is that noone recognizes that the prophecies were available for forgers to create a pretend Jesus, long after his putative life, and then pretend that their ability to reference various prophecies was somehow evidence of the reality of their scam.
I believe he has run away knowing he could not defend that kind of idiocy, and you displayed a good deal of patience with his nonsense, answering him in a well phrased rebuttal.
IF he had returned (and somehow I doubt he will as he is far over his head in an area he clearly knows nothing about....well.....maybe he read Dan Brown along with some wikipedia......), I was going to ask him how he reads the following, meaning which book is it from, and what would it mean to the most elementary intellect, including a scholar:
Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.
Yes, I wonder if he even know if that passage is from the New or Old Testament, and if he know what Luke’s profession was.
Many have read a passage or two of the Bible and then claimed they know what it says, but all they do it take things they read of context.
I wonder what he would have to say about the phrase, “I AM”, and if he could even knows where it was used for the first time, and what is the importance of that phrase.
I could go on and on about various small instances of the Scriptures that have huge implications to Christians that those claiming to know what the Bible says would never have a clue about.
Not to mention the many instances of secular history that have huge implications with things that are mentioned in the Scriptures.
I wonder if he know of which Roman scholar wrote about Christians and the way they lived as peaceful individuals while the roman Government was persecuting them?
A little knowledge without facts can be a dangerous thing, just look at the mass confusion that permeates in the minds of millions of Americans who were educated by today’s public school system.