So John Loftus jumped ship.
Should that surprise us?
Oh yes, he was a very devote and fervent person for his faith - his own words. In the fundamentalist world, he would be like one of the apostles (excluding JI), or Paul, or Timothy or Barnabas or ... (fill in the blank) from jumping ship.
Didn't Paul warn him not to, or this would happen?
Nope, poor Paul had no knowledge of the modern world. I'm sure he would have seen the light, in a modern rendition of his own experience and joined up with modern thinking.
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Then don't tell me "original Hebrew says this", or "original Greek says that" and expect me to believe it.
I'm not claiming expertise in Hebrew or Greek. I'm saying what recognized experts both Christian and non-Christian are saying which is consistent with current understanding of Science, history and Biblical Criticism (non-fundamentalist scholarship of the Bible). Nothing mysterious here.
You can act like you have access to the originals, thanks to Satan's Wrong's Concordance, but you don't.
No one does and no one had them all at once. The Bible and NT was never a document of original documents. It evolved like everything else. But this is accepted standard fare even amongst people who would call themselves fundamentalist/evangelical scholars but who also try to be true to following principles of modern Biblical scholarship. If you go against this then you are even going against conservative and fundamentalist Christian scholars. Wow! That is being pretty heady, I would say.
ETA: And for the record, it's AD 70, not 70 AD.
). In fact, you might benefit from reading people like John Loftus and Don Barker with an open mind! 
