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Originally Posted by photon
Not sure if you are interested, but if you would like an alternative view based in current Biblical scholarship that would challenge pretty much all of your points I'd suggest almost everything by Bart Ehrman, his books are pretty conservative in that they don't deviate much from where current scholarship is at.
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Read Misquoting Jesus, but his arguments are flawed. Yes, I know we all played the telephone game, but for an oral tradition culture like found in the middle east in the time of Jesus, changing anything passed on would be inconceivable.
People in those times could not read nor write, the printing press wasn't even invented, oral tradition was all they had.
Still though, as mentioned in my post non-Christian historians wrote about Jesus, and that alone debunks most of Erhman's points.
Add to that the letters of St Paul and other early church Fathers.