(January 28, 2016 at 4:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(January 28, 2016 at 9:23 am)Jehanne Wrote: The Gospels are filled with legendary, embellished material. Even William Lane Craig acknowledges this fact with respect to Matthew 27, going so far as to say that Matthew was not writing literal history. Of course, Craig is a fool; very little historical information can be gleaned from the Gospels, but they all, clearly, point to an epileptic revolutionary with delusions of grandeur, Jesus of Nazareth.
And does the Iliad point to a pissed-off archer named Apollo?
Quote: So he prayed, and Phoebus Apollo heard him. Down he came, in fury, from the heights of Olympus, with his bow and inlaid quiver at his back. The arrows rattled at his shoulder as the god descended like the night, in anger. He set down by the ships, and fired a shaft, with a fearful twang of his silver bow. First he attacked the mules, and the swift hounds, then loosed his vicious darts at the men; so the dense pyres for the dead burned endlessly.
For nine days the god’s arrows fell on the army, and on the tenth Achilles, his heart stirred by the goddess, white-armed Hera, called them to the Place of Assembly, she pitying the Danaans, whose deaths she witnessed.
You've got to watch the special pleading Jehanne. It is not "different" because you think it is about your godboy.
I'm an atheist. That a religious loon named Jesus of Nazareth existed is an historical fact. Do you believe that George Washington existed?
