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To: Nabber
That event is mentioned, as prophecy. Luke 21, Matthew 24. Possibly even Mark 13. Skeptics believe that these words were placed into Jesus' mouth. Almost all scholars use this to suggest that the first and third gospels were written after 70AD because of the poignancy of that prophecy, particularly Matthew who was writing to a Jewish audience.

I should also mention that I'm not a biblical scholar myself, I just know what I've read.

157 posted on 05/06/2006 2:37:00 PM PDT by AmishDude (AmishDude, servant of the dark lord Xenu.)
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To: AmishDude

Puh-leeze!

Jesus mentioning this as a prophecy (whether put into his mouth or not, which by the way shows an extreme amount of skepticism, but let's leave that alone) would surely have been followed up by : "See, Jesus said it and it happened!" yet that is not what was written.

"Almost all scholars" ? Uh, No. I think you mean all skeptic scholars.


159 posted on 05/06/2006 2:57:24 PM PDT by Nabber
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