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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This is patently false. Studies of modern oral cultures demonstrate rather definitively that there are multiform and frequent changes to traditions occurring all the time.
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Clearly, we have different opinions, as would scholars on the subject, i.e.Kenneth Bailey & Gerhardsson, who concluded that within a formal controlled oral tradition, changing the storyline was inconceivable.
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
You have made an argument from incredulity: "Surely the testimony of the apostles and the early church must be true because of how much they suffered for their beliefs." I recommend that you go back and read Ehrman, because his rather convincing argument is that the first and second century Christian claims of persecution are exaggerated.
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Surely you can't take Ehrman seriously on this topic, when the evidence is overwhelming against him, Stephen, Polycarp of Smyrna, Bartholomew, Cyprian of Carthage, Sebastian, Agatha, etc...
Erhman as an agnostic, has a clear agenda, which along the way has made him millions, along with Dan Brown.