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Thank you.

Regarding your first response:

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"the texts of the New Testament, which have equal standing with respect to authenticity"

Since it's not rational for an annonymously written text to have equal standing with a text written by a prophet of G-d, based on what external authority to you base this claim?

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Charlie -- The writers of the Old Testament are no less anonymous than the writers of the New Testament, Sir.


The error behind your assertion, Charles, is a lacking of the simple historical facts afterwhich you'll certainly agree the two cannot be compared.
You might not be able to admit it right away, but after it settles in. It'll be self evident.

The 4 main gospels and Acts, as well, give no indication they were written by the names on their cover. In fact, your scholars argue over when they were written and who's were written first and who used whom as a resource of their own.

They largely agree that the gospels were written some 30-60 years AFTER jesus' death so not only are they of unknown authorship, they are not even unknown eyewitness accounts! They are unknown, a.k.a annonymous third or thirtieth person recollections of a person the mystery author never personally saw.

What you erroneously refer to as the "Old Testiment," having been raised on the falsehood of a New replacement, we call the 5 Books of Moses.
That's Moses, son of Amram and Yocheved of the Tribe of Levi. Moses, brother of Miriam and Aaron. Moses, born on the 7th day of the Jewish month, Adar, 2368 years after the creation of Adam [approx 1400 BCE].

We can tell you were he lived, who he married, what his kids names were, who his successor was, what he ate, when he died, where he died AND, most important of all, WHEN he wrote the 5 Books.
We were there!
You didn't really process this the first time I said it.
We were there.
We just said Moses was from the Tribe of Levi, a descendant of the son of Jaacob named Levi. We have other descendants from the tribe of Levi to this very day. They are 1st cousins, albeit 1000 times removed from Moses himself, the man, not myth, who wrote the 5 Books of... say it with me, Moses.

Moses was a Jew, he scribed tese books for Jews, he handed the scrolls themselves to Jews, he studied them with those Jews, he taught the next generation of Jewish teachers to teach his books to the next generation of teachers.

And all those people heard- p.e.r.s.o.n.a.l.l.y h.e.a.r.d and saw- p.e.r.s.o.n.a.l.l.y s.a.w with their own eyes and their own ears G-d speaking to Moses and telling all that all he will tell them is true.

Not a kid born in a barn or a man falling off a horse or a looney alone in a forest, all of whom there is NOONE to testify to ANYTHING about them.

So as I said way back when, it is just "not rational for an annonymously written text to have equal standing with a text written by a prophet of G-d."

Now all this, all the above can be rewritten regarding your next comment which is one in the same.

"What you and I know of Daniel, for instance, whom we both believe wrote the book of Daniel, is what we read in the Old Testament."

Again, no. We were there.

Daniel, a Jewish prophet, for the Jews, exiled with the Jews, taught to Jews, spoke to Jews, ate with Jews... Daniel told his teachings to Jews, they were written down for Jews, they were passed down to the next Jews, to the next, to the next to me!

There is a chain linking myself all the way back to grandpa Daniel, himself. One link in my hand. One link in his.

So what you know of Daniel is like a stranger coming to my house and picking up a letter my grandfather wrote me.
You can think you and I have but the ink on the page but, you have to admit, that is really all you have. You alone. I'm family. I know what he's saying.

With this information that was missing you can see the error of your two assertions, and the remainding ones for that matter.
If you want we can continue to go through them one at a time.