RE: Bart D. Ehrman - The Bane of Fundies!
October 28, 2010 at 11:24 am
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2010 at 11:29 am by Godscreated.)
(October 28, 2010 at 12:49 am)Minimalist Wrote: Careful, G-C. They'll throw you out of the fundie club. They have a zero tolerance policy!
The fact remains that whoever the author was ( it would a mere coincidence if the guy was named "John.") he DID place the event at the beginning, Chapter 2... ( and then goes on to describe other later events. I have to give that round to Ehrman. He clearly knows a lot more than you.
Still....glad to see you backing away from a literal reading. That's a sign of progress. Maybe we're rubbing off on you?
( And I don't mean that in a sexual context!)
I believe that the truth is truth whether literial or spiritual. He maybe more intelligent than I am but I see his bias in his writtings which makes him at the very least deceptive. He does have a way with words that would lead one to believe what he says is the complete truth, if one is not careful to analyze his work. No one has disproven that the authors of the gospels are not who christians believe them to be. What does it matter where John placed the event, he was conveying a spiritual truth and a literal truth as to how Jesus felt about the temple event. What makes you believe that John has the event in the wrong place in the life of Jesus. Because we do not have the original copy of John's gospel we have no idea where he placed this event. When the gospel was being copied by others this event may have been placed where it is today instead of where John had originally placed it.
If they kick me out that's OK I still belong to the Club Jesus.
No sexual context taken.
(October 28, 2010 at 11:17 am)Jaysyn Wrote:(October 28, 2010 at 10:57 am)Godschild Wrote: No, the scriptures are truth period.
The old saying is true, there is one born every minute.
(October 28, 2010 at 10:57 am)Godschild Wrote: You all are so biased in your thinking you will see only what you desire when you read anything and this leads to one being decieved.
And we can add that to the long list of things you have no proof of.
Proof, proof, proof just read what you write or maybe better said what most of you copy from each other.
It may be better stated that one is reborn every minute Praise God!
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
