(September 25, 2015 at 11:41 pm)Aractus Wrote:(September 25, 2015 at 10:54 pm)Redbeard The Pink Wrote: Whoever made up and/or wrote down those stories, bro. It could have been anyone, and I honestly don't care.
Are you really saying you believe an anonymous person came up with the parable of the Good Samaritan?
No, it's far more likely that it was a pseudonymous person, like the people who wrote most of the New Testament and much of the overall Bible. It was years (supposedly) before anything about Jesus was even written down, so there's really very little way to tell which details/parables would have been added/embellished over time. About all we can say for sure is, "None of this magic stuff happened." I just happen to believe that most/all of the rest of it it probably didn't happen (or at least there's no reason to positively believe it did), whereas you seem to believe that anything that isn't magical probably did happen because the Bible and your two favorite pet scholars say so.
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
