(March 15, 2015 at 11:24 pm)Lek Wrote: That's the point of my question. So why would me discovering that the authors of the gospels are anonymous make me stop believing in Christ?
Nobody is saying that it should.
What we are saying is that what is said inside said writings is more suspect when we don't know who the authors are, and that the confidence with which you repeat what is said within is unfounded.
What we are saying that using what is said in the gospels as evidence of anything is ridiculous if we don't even know who wrote them. If we don't know who wrote them, how can we make any assumptions as to their relationship to the stories and accounts within?
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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