(June 15, 2012 at 1:08 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Pads already offered you one textbook example, whether or not it was added later has precisely zero effect on whether or not it's in there now.
The problem though is that even many fundamentalists now recognize that passage was added later. I've read this view from fundamentalist books on Bible interpretation (which within modern fundamentalism are mainstream books). It's not just a position held under secular scholars. If I come across someone who thinks it really was part of the Bible (and is aware of the controversy over its authenticity) then, yeah, I might point the fallacy out. But for the number of Christians who now recognize it's inauthentic, I might as well start citing problems in the apocryphal books to them.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
