Posted: Apr 18, 2017 3:53 am
Leucius Charinus wrote:......It follows that manuscripts of the NT dated by Paleography to the 2nd & 3rd centuries may in fact be manuscripts written upon in the 4th century at which time the NT Bible became the source of inspiration for the entire Roman empire. Palaeography is not as accurate a dating methodology as has sometimes been advertised, as recent articles have argued.......
NT Manuscripts dated to the 2nd &3rd century may in fact be from those very centuries.
It must not be forgotten that dating by Paleography was not initiated just to date NT manuscripts. Paleography is the accepted method used to date ancient writings [christian and non-christian] throughout the whole world.
Carbon dating does not date the written texts but the material on which the text is written and in addition carbon dating and Paleography have very wide date ranges.
Leucius Charinus wrote:......Consequently it is not necessarily true that that stories of Jesus were already written (according to palaeography) at least a hundred years before the Roman Catholic Religion of the 4th century.
These NT manuscript palaeographic dating estimates may in fact be perceived as a form of pareidolia or confirmation bias.
It is also not necessarily true that the stories of Jesus were started in the 4th century by the Roman Church.
By means of Paleography [the universally accepted method of dating ancient manuscripts] texts with Jesus stories have been dated long before the 4th century therefore the argument that Jesus cults or believers of the Jesus stories predated the 4th century Roman Church cannot be overturned presently.
Based on the abundance of evidence, I argue that the 4th century Roman Church hijacked the so-called Christian religion and invented their false history of the Church.
For example, writings attributed to Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter, James, Jude, Clement, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen and even Eusebius of Caesarea were corrupted in whole or in part by the Roman Church or their agents.