text: Ebes64, may I suggest that the more compelling observation is that Violet, self-confessed agnostic though she be,  knows her scripture far better than many believers. And with all due respect, I suggest that in this instance, her knowledge of the text and how it get written and how it got accepted by Christians as a guide to our faith, appears to greatly exceed your own. 
  
  I have no problem with your preference for faith over scriptural knowledge (and I do share that preference), but I do have a problem with you apparent inability to recognize Violet's apparent knowledge of modern scriptural studies. 
  
  As a fellow believer, I am embarrassed by your attempt to belittle her evident knowledge of the NT because she is an agnostic. "Faith truly seeking wisdom" must begin by respecting knowledge, regardless of the faith of the teacher.