Chaim, when Paul took leave of the church at Ephesus, he specifically warned of evil men rising up and doing damage to the people of that church (Acts 20:29-31). He would have dearly loved to stay on and do damage prevention, but was not allowed to. There does exist Someone who had the power to either allow Paul a 2000 year life, or send someone exactly like him to do the job, but that someone didn't. You are putting too much emphasis on Paul and Luke, as if this was their idea, as if they could choose what to write and say and do. Of course, you believe that is the case, but if the NT is inspired by G-d, as I believe, then the ultimate responsibility belongs with Ha Shem.

You continue to pass to one side my point that HaShem has allowed evil things to happen. You focussed in on my reference to people like Nehemiah and David, which were a response to the specific "scriptures" proposed by Gideon, but what about the actions of the Babylonians,which were not approved by HaShem, yet still happened? HaShem used the Babylonians as a tool of judgment or discipline on the idolatrous nation, but the specific crimes of dashing babies against stones with glee was not sanctioned and received punishment. Why didn't HaShem stop that? When you find the answer to that, you will find the answer to the other question of why didn't HaShem stop all of those false followers of Christ from persecuting Jews and true followers of Christ.

You are still looking on me as a member of the group that persecuted Jews and asking me to apologize or explain those actions, while I view myself as a member of a group that was persecuted along with the Jews. If I had been there during the Spanish Inquisition or in Hitler's Germany, I would have been trying to escape for my life. I have accepted that HaShem allows evil, but that He will redeem it in the end. Therefore, I have no problem with either the Tanach or the NT in this regard. Meanwhile, you are finding fault with the NT, while inconsistently overlooking the exact same occurrences in the Tanach.

The passages that are twisted to excuse attacks on Jews, like Jesus telling the Jews that their house was left desolate because they didn't recognize him after all the miracles, etc. (said with tears by Jesus, by the way) are necessary. The fact that they could be twisted just like the Babylonians twisted the prophecies that condemned Israel for idolatry, is not a basis for saying they should have been deleted to prevent the anti-Jewishness that occurred.

Noachide Joe, I read some of the Harry Potter books with my Korean English students, not because I like them, but because it was a good exercise for them since they had read them in Korean and already had copies in English. They are NOT internally consistent, and teach some pretty bad things.

Being internally consistent is not a proof of divine origin, but being inconsistent is indeed a proof of non-divine origin. Establishing internal consistency is the basic first step to admitting the NT as a candidate for an inspired book, and that, of course, is under attack in this forum.

SearchinMyRoots, I regret that my answers to many of those charges of errors in the NT have escaped the eddy pools and floated down Thread River. I simply can't take the time right now to respond again to them or the others that I haven't answered yet. Many are challenges similar to how Ahaziah could be 42 years old in II Chronicles 22:2. Many have easy answers, others are more challenging, but I believe that they all have good answers, or at least plausible suggestions for answers. However, please don't take sides with the skeptical atheists, either against the Tanach or against the NT.