Posted: Sep 25, 2011 7:49 am
spin wrote:You frequently trust biblical sources, so you have no problem trusting sources. Your analysis quite often involves comparing with later biblical sources, trusting they are correct and harmonizing. Your statements just hollow phrases.
Where's the "trust"? I don't "trust" that sources harmonize: the texts either do, or they don't. Neither do I "trust" that they're correct (if by that you mean transmission from the autographs). If there's no textual evidence of tampering, and no obvious reason to suspect it, then it's a reasonable inference.
By contrast, your arguments seem to trust complex and unlikely readings.