A scholar says so, so it must be true<\/a>. \u00a0Of course, the fact that various early epistles in the New\u00a0Testament\u00a0were written before that might cause some trouble. \u00a0Still, as with most modern\u00a0scholarly\u00a0arguments, we can just wave our hands,\u00a0dismiss\u00a0hundreds if not thousands of years of\u00a0traditional\u00a0dating of the letters\u00a0and say they were really all written after 70 A.D. \u00a0If modern approaches to historical studies are so free and loose, it does make me wonder about other academic disciplines in other fields of study.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It turns out that Christianity was just made up by Jews as they caved under the Roman assault on Jerusalem in 70 A.D. \u00a0Yep. \u00a0A scholar says so, so it must be true. \u00a0Of course, the fact that various early epistles in the New\u00a0Testament\u00a0were written before that might cause some trouble. \u00a0Still, as with most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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