(August 5, 2015 at 2:16 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Translation: All you have is self-serving pious scribbling, heavily edited and interpolated throughout the centuries.
Remember what one of those scholars said about your "gospels."
Quote:New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman describes the Gospels as: few, relying upon each other, written decades after the alleged events, problematic, contradictory, biased, and written by anonymous authors who were not eyewitnesses. The Gospels are not the kind of sources historians would want in establishing what probably happened in the past.
Let me ask you a question. Do you think Apollo was real?
Again, this was not discussing the "events" in the gospel. Just the fact of Jesus existence in history and his death by crucifixion. For that there is little dissention.
No Apollo was not real and was never written about in a historical sense or by historical scholars as a real person.
We are not made happy by what we acquire but by what we appreciate.