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This is confused. The point stands whether the beloved disciple was John or someone else. Jesus, omniscient, wouldn't have given his mother to an adopted son for life if Jesus had other biological brothers, soon to be leaders of the church, who would be there to care for her (and legally...

A year of Greek and Hebrew! Explains a lot. Just enough to get some hubris, nowhere near enough to know the languages, as all the evangelical seminarians I've ever known liked to crack.

Again, repeating things and ignoring the responses you've been given doesn't make those things suddenly true. As was discussed previously, grammatically the best reading is that there are three people identified in John 19:25. The author of John 19 uses the word "kai" between each person he...

Seriously, you are calling others liars on this? You haven't addressed the data that you have been buried with here over the past several weeks of actual Greek usage of the day, or the extraordinarily weighty testimony of history. Instead, you've ignored, obfuscated, raised red hearings, or...

Not the claim. The claim is that, based on the Gospels, we know of only one Simon in the family of Jesus--the "brother" identified in the gospels. And Hegessipus has this individual in mind given what he says about him. So based on the data, Hegessipus knows of this "brother" of Jesus to be a...

Did you write a book on the same topic, relying on Hislop? Woodrow did, then he recanted it based on his familiarity with the history. This is a bad faith response by you. The point is that evangelical scholars have themselves debunked Hislop as false based on the history, not that Woodrow is...

I mean, we're explaining as we speak about the Scriptural basis for the perpetual virginity. I dont want to get sidetracked on the Queen of Heaven, but its clear-cut from Revelation 12, then from the biblical understanding of the identity of the mother of king as we see in the OT that is riffed...

I missed this earlier, but exactly. It reminds me of the old adage about how a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can get out of bed (or something to that effect, think it was Churchill). Hislop peddled flat out misinformation that seeped its way even to this day into modern...

Respectfully, I'm not sure I follow your point. Are you drawing a distinction between (1) Joseph and Mary never consummating (a point it sounds like you agree with) and (2) the idea of in partu virginity (the idea that Mary was miraculously preserved physically through childbirth) (which, it...

I am still catching up on recent posts, but has there been any meaningful response to this, on the historical point about the formation and scope of the canon?

Good book. Sounds like you didn't read it (at least not in good faith) if that's your takeaway. And not to be rude (sincerely), but as you are one who now admits he doesn't even have the linguistic skills to look up what words are in the septuagint, are you in any position to critique the...

Evidence just from the pages of Scripture (never mind the overwhelming weight of history): 1. John 19:27, when Jesus gives Mary to John and he takes her as his own mother (eis ta idia), doesn't make historical sense if Jesus had younger brothers from Mary who would have been legally responsible...

First, of course, hope your wife is fine. Second, though, this still doesn't track, as study light's lxx uses the word. Third, regardless, you declared as "unalterable fact" that the LXX did not use the word because it was unavailable in Greek (you were trying to argue why all the uses of...

By Hislop? Yikes. Here's evangelical, former Hislop emulator Ralph Woodrow explaining on Hank Hanegraaff's website (originally 25 years ago) why he went as far as to pull his own book based on Hislop's out of print because he realized that Hislop had engaged in faux history (to be charitable...

First, while the apology is welcome, this remarkably seems like yet another dodge! You identified "three Greek manuscripts" of the LXX. Please name them and/or link to them. You not doing so is yet further evidence that you either fabricated, or else deliberately spoke falsely, about the very...

Please provide citations, links, or information to identify these "three Greek manuscripts." Because, candidly, it seems like you are compounding fabrication ("maybe the blue letter bible uses a later revised LXX!") upon fabrication ("syngenes was not in Koine Greek when the LXX was...

Thanks for sharing. I've added to my reading list.

One more thing on this-- I had taken at face value your claim that "syngenes" (συγγενὴς) was "not in Koine Greek" when the LXX was translated. But that, too, is evidently false. It appears five times in the Greek Old Testament, three in Leviticus, one in 2 Samuel, one in Ezekiel. G4773 -...

Don't know Kruger; is he of a piece with Bruce and Metzger, generally? Some details that aren't quite right historically, it seems, but most of this we can agree on. Just focusing on the core claim that Scripture is "self-authenticating," this short article has some observations on point that...

Yes, the canon wasn't dogmatically established until Trent. But the 73 book canon was identified as the "divine Scripture" by a series of councils in the late fourth and early fifth century (the first formal pronouncements on the issue by bodies of the church). It didn't take Trent to "promote"...