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Originally Posted by Timotheist
Nope. I have been very consistent in portraying my method. Anything and everything that has been added to Mark is subject to scrutiny. If it passes my tests, then I am good with it.
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So you think that one account is sufficient and that account is Mark. Every account that covers the same material is plagiarizing, and any that provides anything else is suspect simply because it is not in Mark.
If two accounts tell different, non contradictory aspects of something not included in Mark, it is rejected because it is not in Mark. Or because the accounts are not identical with each other. Or if they are, they are rejected as plagiarism (one of the other, or of some other source).
And if Paul does not comment on it, it is completely out.
In #349, referring to the infancy stories, you note that two added the story to Mark (presumptuous that Mark was the source of the basic gospel).
Actually, you effectively make a moral argument against Matthew and Luke because of plagiarism, yet insist that anything other than what is in Mark must be confirmed by other sources. And since you reject the "plagiaristic" accounts in Matthew and Luke, is anything in Mark not specifically commented on in another writing, such as by Paul, subject to question? And if so, then you consider Mark highly suspect since no one has commented on all the various accounts, even in the much shorter account in Mark.
So you have no base. Just an opinion of which passages should be accepted and which rejected.
Or do you claim that Mark is special and not subject to question?
In each particular post, you book end your position with statements. But those statements are bookended in other posts with statements that, when collected together, are circular in reasoning. There is no source, only relative positions, but there is no beginning and no end because it eventually wraps upon itself.
And faith is never a part of the equation. Only the self-made rules as to how to wander into scripture and decide which ones you like and which you don't like.
I'm beginning to think I am dealing with Vizzini.