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To: kosta50
No eyewitnesses are named.

Just for starters:

Luke 1:1-5

Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

Mark 1:1-5

The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God. It is written in Isaiah the prophet:
"I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way"— "a voice of one calling in the desert, 'Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.' "
And so John came, baptizing in the desert region and preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River.

13,253 posted on 10/19/2010 7:25:27 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: boatbums; kosta50

Kosta said that no eyewitnesses were named.

You have not named any, especially any individuals apart from the heart of Christianity. Where is the equivalent of Cato? Why has is there nothing from Claudius, who wrote extensively before being thrust into the Emperor’s seat? Where even, are the anti Christian Jewish writings, along with their authors?


13,257 posted on 10/19/2010 7:34:26 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.)
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To: boatbums
Just for starters: Luke 1:1-5

Luke's Gospel is not signed. The Church believed it was Luke who wrote it, according to tradition. beside,s he names no witnesses.

Mark, which is also anonymous, is not naming witnesses; he is interpreting Isaiah's prophesy as applying to Jesus.

13,277 posted on 10/19/2010 9:26:18 PM PDT by kosta50 (God is tired of repenting -- Jeremiah 15:6, KJV)
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