re ancient references to christianity was albert sabin in ren a q morrow stanford edu salem pangea stanford edu bruce salem writes in article c ztju fkx news cso uiuc edu cobb alexia lis uiuc edu mike cobb writes why is the nt tossed out as info on jesus i realize it is normally tossed out because it contains miracles but what are the other reasons it is not tossed out as a source but would it be regarded as unbiased and independant this brings up another something i have never understood i asked this once before and got a few interesting responses but somehow didn t seem satisfied why would the nt not be considered a good source this might be a literary historical question but when i studied history i always looked for firsthand original sources to write my papers if the topic was on mr x i looked to see if mr x wrote anything about it if the topic was on a group look for the group etc if the topic is on mr x and mr x did not write anything about it barring the theistic response about the bible being divinely inspired which i can t adequately argue wouldn t we look for people who ate worked walked talked etc with him if someone was at an event wouldn t they be a better reporter than someone who heard about it second hand i guess isn t firsthand better than second hand i know there is bias and winners writing history but doesn t the principle of firsthand being best still apply mac michael a cobb and i won t raise taxes on the middle university of illinois class to pay for my programs champaign urbana bill clinton rd debate cobb alexia lis uiuc edu nobody can explain everything to anybody g k chesterton
