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RE: "Of course there's a simple solution to this. The gospels were written after the destruction of the Temple and the writers were convinced the end would be soon."
(WR:) But then why write a book in the first place? Writing and disseminating even a slender book in those days was an expensive and time-consuming endeavor.
Oh, so if a book was written at a time when it was costly to produce it, then it must be true? What, then, of all those gnostic books written around the same time?
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And why feature instructions about things like swearing by the Temple (in Matthew 23) if the Temple was gone?
That's a silly question, because it's a quote attributed to someone from before the then. Kinda like if something were written about someone commenting about the World Trade Center several years ago; would you argue that it could not have been written after the destruction of the WTC?
"As for the truth, it seems like we just pick a theory." -- Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls
