Simple question?

Quote: FrGamble

Literally every respected NT scholar disagrees with you on this.

You remember nothing of us already discussing
this in depth. The new scholars of the last 20
years all agree the NT was written over a
300 year period. They said it was a cottage
industry, not me. If you're a writer in 250ad
and want to get noticed, you pen a book
and say it was written by Peter, or James
or Paul. If you place it correctly it will
catch on and your ideas will get noticed.

Please give me the name of any respected Biblical scholar who says any of the NT was written after 150AD.

Quote: FrGamble

Please give me the name of any respected Biblical scholar who says any of the NT was written after 150AD.

If I do you'll say you want a 'respected'
scholar, not a best selling one. What
you want is a Vatican approved Bible
scholar, that's what you want me to name.

Please name a Protestant one if you'd like we're all in agreement on this fact.

Quote: FrGamble

Please name a Protestant one if you'd like we're all in agreement on this fact.

What's being connected to religion
got to do with it. There are unbiased
non religious researchers, you know.
I'd like to say I can't believe you're
bringing this up again, we discussed
it at length months ago. In one ear..

I remember you didn't give a name then either.

Quote: FrGamble

I remember you didn't give a name then either.

I gave many. Surely you remember this guy. He's
proven half the NT is forged:

'Bart D. Ehrman has written or edited thirty books, including five New York Times bestsellers: How Jesus Became God, Misquoting Jesus, God’s Problem, Jesus Interrupted and Forged. Ehrman is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity.'

Or 'CHRIST'S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity'

https://www.amazon.com/CHRISTS-VENTRILOQUISTS-Event-Created-Christianity-ebook/dp/B007Q1H4EG

There's lots more but why bother.

Quote: FrGamble

I guess you can choose to believe in the Jesus Seminar over Jesus Himself.

That is not the choice. It is not "Jesus Himself" it is what an anonymous author wrote, and after years of copying and possibly editing, ended up in the bible.

I think that is the point of the jesus seminar - what did jesus actually say? What quotes can be positively attributed to him?

So no, the choice isn't between what jesus said and what the jesus seminar said, the choice is: what did jesus actually say, and how do you know he actually said it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament/

No later than 150? Aside from editing and other insertions until at least 300, as evidenced by older source materials which were missing certain passages.

That late, it would be like us now writing about world war I, from oral histories only, and from limited texts on the subject from 1950, which again would have been based on oral tradition rather than the mass of documentary evidence about WWI that was written at the time.

Quote: FrGamble

Let me reiterate that it is entirely a free gift.

Free? I beg to differ. it costs your soul. Your blind, unquestioning obedience to every outdated rule in an old book, to every edict from Rome, to every pointless ritual, to disgusting acts of not-so-symbolic cannibalism, all regardless of what your judgment tells you.

What would it gain anyone to enter heaven and lose their soul?