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433:. It starts with "This analysis merely compares the evidence reported in the canonical gospels to the extra Christian historical evidence we received, highlighting the inconsistencies" and ends with "The mixture of languages and the manipulation of the words translated, have been, in time, deliberately exploited to change the meaning." This is obviously an essay, and OR. Nothing to salvage here. 353:- The article undoubtedly presents itself as original research, but an editor with expertise in theology may be able to find sources for most (if not all) of the concrete assertions within. Though I do not have the available time to comb through the entire article, I saw at least two specific ideas that can be sourced with ease. The first is that of 413:
essay and is simply unsalvageable. Someone else, if and when an appropriate expert might be found, may at some point in the future want to write a WP article on this topic that has at least some semblance of compliance with Knowledge (XXG) content policies, but it would have to be done totally from
548:-- This is no more than an essay and largely OR. It even declares itself not to be original research. If there was anything worth saving (and I do not think there is), it ought to be merged with something on the historicity of the new Testament generally. 335:
OR essay, POV pushing. There are certainly other articles which deal with the historical identities of the men reflected in the New Testament, but this is not an encyclopedic treatment of the topic and there is no good way to make it so.
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there does not appear to be much here that wouldn't have to be totally rewritten. The title doesn't seem particularly helpful or accurate. If someone wants to salvage some of this discussion, perhaps adding a section to
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Original research. This is an original synthesis with no evidence at all that the opinions expressed come from anyone other than the author of the article. (PROD was removed by the author of the article.)
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No, thanks. There may be some ideas and assertions in this text that are correct and possibly verifiable but the article is written entirely as a lengthy and argumentative pure
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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that describes some of this material would be appropriate. Maybe merge some of it, but do not redirect.
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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scratch. The current text is not salvageable and not improvable and must be deleted.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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