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To: Steelfish
You point to variations in narrative as “mutually exclusive” but do not specify the nature of the doctrinal exclusivity you seek to advance.

I could just as easily direct you to scholars whom you would find disagreeable. Spouting name is either a stalling tactic or a feeble defense of one's convictions insufficiently thought through and digested.

My variations point to mutually exclusive claims as to whom Jesus allegedly appeared first, when, where and how he did that. There is no doctrinal issue here. Just mutually exclusive and unsupported "witness." accounts.

Doctrinally tricky and made-up biblical verses are also plentiful, but these are not the subject of the discussion.

60 posted on 10/20/2009 9:28:05 PM PDT by kosta50 (Don't look up, the truth is all around you)
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To: kosta50

“I could just as easily direct you to scholars whom you would find disagreeable”

Excellent, you just conceded my point. You have already concluded that differences in narrative are not “minor” but point to an undefined “mutual exclusivity” and yet you appear at the same time you concede that sorting this is the realm of competing scholars who may or may not “disagree.”

Indeed, it is the province of university departments and biblical scholars. When I refer you to sources where this has been sorted out (not to mention that others have done so for 2000 years) you resort to the uneducated nonsense of “made-up” biblical verses.

As stated before, this kind of response is not the stuff of a serious and informed quest for the truth. It betrays a puerile approach to biblical interpretative methodology.


61 posted on 10/20/2009 9:47:25 PM PDT by Steelfish
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