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To: XeniaSt
There's a serious distinction to be made between:
(a) contemporaneous evidence written by a witness; and

(b) commentary written about something, well after the fact, where the author is not a witness and may not have had access to material in category (a).

In category (a) we have only scripture.
439 posted on 12/17/2005 1:50:29 PM PST by PatrickHenry (... endless horde of misguided Luddites ...)
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To: PatrickHenry

Actually, at this point, scripture isn't in category a either, insofar as no known version is old enough to have been written by the actual eyewitnesses themselves. Perhaps there are still older versions in existence, but for the moment, the earliest known written version of the Gospels dates to almost 100 years after the Crucifixion.


441 posted on 12/17/2005 1:58:41 PM PST by Senator Bedfellow
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