(January 31, 2016 at 5:45 am)robvalue Wrote: What I find weird is that the gospels are often assumed to have more credibility because we don't know who wrote them.
By whom?
How does not knowing make them more credible?
(January 31, 2016 at 5:45 am)robvalue Wrote: They are obvious fiction. If I state to a Christian some more modern obvious fiction, with a known author, they'll just say "it's fiction" and dismiss the entire works with two words.
When I do the same, I get all manner of ridiculous reasons why it is actually true.
"Obvious fiction"? This is just an assertion, rob...the kind of post that you are famous for.
What makes it so "obvious"? The presence of supernatural events? And what makes these miracles "obvious fiction", rob? Only the fact that you define them as such.
"Show me the evidence."
"Okay. Here is an account of an inexplicable event which suggests that God may exist."
"That can't be a miracle, because 1) supernatural events don't happen, 2) God does not exist. Show me the evidence."
It's a circular argument containing two presuppositions, and you make it over and over and over again.
