@charlesmurray “Anger”? What a weird thing to say. And yes I have a lot of confidence in the opinion of the overwhelming number of NT scholars who know a lot more about the field than you do.
@charlesmurray NT scholars are well aware of his arguments and almost uniformly reject them for multiple reasons, chiefly genre, intended audience, and theological purpose. The argument from silence is especially weak. Sensible reasons why none of the NT would mention the temple’s destruction.
@germanophile@charlesmurray Jesus as apocalyptic prophet is now the majority view in the field and regarding that one saying as coming from the author and not Jesus is not the one reason for dating Mark.
@SufrinSuccotash@charlesmurray You think the leading scholars in NT who have thought and written about these issues for decades are grad students? And “truth” is not the issue, but rather accusing someone of seeing the evidence because of an “agenda” when their view is shared by almost everyone in the field.
@charlesmurray But this discussion was prompted by the assertion that Ehrman had some agenda and was not following the evidence. Which I would hope you would now acknowledge is unfair given that almost all experts agree with him and they are Christians so what is the agenda?
@charlesmurray Nonsense. The vast majority of New Testament scholars agree on the dating and pseudepigraphical authorship of the gospels. And the vast majority of those scholars are Christians.
@atrupar@RadioFreeTom But this same Rep. Jacobs is fine telling her constituents that men can magically become women by saying they are and are fit to serve in the military. The reason the GOP is in power with clowns like Hegseth is because Dems refuse to just be normal and not alienate voters.
@ClayTravis No it’s not “legitimate” and is one of the dumbest arguments I have ever seen on X and that’s a low bar. The only people who don’t think it’s dumb are people who are also dumb or who know nothing about the law.
@ZaidJilani What objective evidence, other than a single poll showing D support at 46, leads you to believe Texas will elect a D in a statewide election?
@wil_da_beast630 Except it’s not true. If I spend my money on a gift for someone I don’t care about quality? If someone hands me $100 I wouldn’t care about the cost of things so I wouldn’t maximize my haul from the cash? Like many economists MF was not living in the real world.
@brian_armstrong Before anyone wastes any of the precious time they have on earth by reading Atlas Shrugged, save time and just read Whittaker Chambers’s famous review. https://t.co/hodn9kx79Z
@jonesville@Martina And also because that asshole went over and shook his hand. A real man would have refused to even participate with females involved.