RE: Christians - even the Bible says that Jesus was not God so why do you say he was ?
October 23, 2015 at 10:20 am
(October 23, 2015 at 10:16 am)alpha male Wrote:(October 23, 2015 at 9:29 am)Irrational Wrote: I don't think that "Luke" had access to "Matthew". The blatantly different nativity accounts show that to be the case. According to many scholars, they did independently have access to "Mark" and also "Q", whatever it may have been (whether oral or written).
You need to account for the similarities between Matthew and Luke that aren't found in Mark in some way. If you want to invent a Q to explain it, that's your choice, but it's far simpler to suppose that Luke had a copy of Matthew. Occam's Razor and that. I'll accept Q when a copy of Q with the common passages and predating Matthew and Luke is found.
You're misusing that principle. You want to apply Occam's Razor properly, stop ignoring certain pieces of evidence.
