(June 14, 2014 at 7:28 am)ThomM Wrote:(June 14, 2014 at 4:54 am)Irrational Wrote: Sarcasm? Or you're being serious?
When you consider how the ministers of the world cut and paste parts of the bible and ignore others like the plague - and then claim WE take things out of context. The fact is - the bible is nothing more than a collection of fictional stories from unknown authors - some of which could not have been written within 200 years of the supposed time of the christ.
Example - the word "Rabbi" was not used until after the second century - yet it appears in the bible - HOW? Because the bible is nonsense
This is some extreme skepticism you have there. Is it warranted, though? Or is it out of a strong bias?
Rabbi may have been orally used prior to what you're suggesting, or it may have had a different meaning in the NT. Either way, this isn't a good support for what you're arguing given other evidence pointing to the NT being written in the first century. Otherwise, this is all one big conspiracy, and I'm against that sort of thinking if it's not warranted by the evidence.