(Interbane: Is Robert demonstrating the 'integrity' you spoke of?) Okay Doulos lets go through your comment line by line to demonstrate your scurrilous tactics... I am completely happy to be proved wrong if the evidence supports Doulos. But we all know the reality - Jesus did not exist and apologis...

Are you creating a barrier to your own critical thinking by assuming that the opposing viewpoint must be illogical? Which one of us assumed the opposing viewpoint is illogical? If there are parts of the viewpoint that are illogical, there need be no assumptions. There could be a debate over the det...

i got to have a conversation with someone without that annoying thought in the back of my head whispering "they have not accepted christ as their saviour they are going to a lost eternity""you better convince them fast" That thought would only be there if there was certainty of ...

I am in the mythicst camp for the simple reason the letter J does not exist in the Hebrew alphabet, no Jew has ever been named Jesus. I do believe that a God realized being/man was teaching hence the Sermon of Mount precepts. However, if Satan was going to hide anywhere and fool people it would be ...

. . . Every human is guilty in one way or another of bias. Yes, me too. But that's not my point, and never was. From countless personal experiences, the majority of people turn a blind eye to their bias. When they are called out on it, they fess up, but not otherwise. This applies to atheists and t...

You have also failed to address the other two ancient sources listed. Any of the three disprove your contention that there is an, "absence of definitive early citation." Scientifically, the burden of proof rests with the person making a positive claim. Doulos makes the positive claim that...

Yup. Bias is normal, as it simply reflects coming to conclusions. I stand with you in the guilty docks You miss my point. If you do nothing to combat your bias, you will be more likely to arrive at false conclusions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases Every human is guilty in one...

"same words" No, the same phrasing and sentence. The stuff that would get you expelled for plagiarism if you wrote it today ;) "And I could not find anyone to back up your assertion that Barnabas cites Mark, just on a quick internet search" You mean you've been making these asse...

"The bias is evident and blatant from the majority of theists" Please note I'm not disagreeing with this statement... merely suggesting that it is just as true for Atheists, but you are simply more in agreement with that bias. Correct, most here are biased against bias. Would you like to ...

Okay, just because two documents have the same words - and just in this one phrase mind you, as there is nothing more in the Epistle of Barnabas - you feel confident to assume one is citing the other, despite the strong possibility both come from a common source. I go back to my comment that you na...