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Originally Posted by Hasbinlulz
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You say all this yet you compare Stephen Hawking to "jesus scholars."
My hair is a bird, your argument is invalid.
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Why do you put quotations around "Jesus scholars"? You're the only one who's used the term -- are you quoting yourself?
They're not Jesus scholars. They're historians and biblical scholars. You scoff at them as though they confirm the biblical accounts. On the contrary, many of the scholars that have confirmed the existence of historical Jesus have engaged in significant textual criticism and noted occasions of contradiction and downright historical inaccuracies within the New Testament.
I don't understand the crux of your issue with biblical scholars. Do you reject history as a suitable field for expertise? Do you deny the necessity for historians to investigate arguably the most influential literature in the history of our species? You don't have to believe a single word of the New Testament in order to still appreciate the efforts to contextualize the work and determine what, if anything, is supported by other, non-religious accounts of the period.
Regardless, if you can agree that history is a suitable field for expertise and the Bible is worthy of historical inspection, you shouldn't have any aversion to biblical scholarship.