(November 2, 2015 at 8:40 am)Drich Wrote:(November 2, 2015 at 1:23 am)Evie Wrote: "Faith" in expertise is surely better than faith in nonexistent ogre shit?
(Yeah I felt like a change from bullshit and horseshit, and I took inspiration from the Halloween RPG I've been playing lately).
Your expert is an idiot or hopes his followers are, in that they are not willing to look at the context in which he quotes.
What is bolded (by me) says more than enough about how Christians like you (which I used to be myself) think. There is that sort of arrogance whereby a Christian layman like Drich thinks he understands the Bible better than someone like Bart Ehrman who, very probably, has studied the Bible way more than Drich ever has, and he has words on paper to prove that he is an expert in the field.
Acts 17 shows a Paul that thinks in a different manner from the Paul of the Epistles (in this case, with regards to idolatry). Therein lies the contradiction. It's not about just this verse or that. According to Acts, pagans were ignorant of the true God. Romans 1 says otherwise: that they knew of the true God but actively rejected him in favor of other gods. Dismiss the contradiction all you want, but it's there. And it also isn't the only main difference anyway.
Also, you keep forgetting the majority of New Testament scholars disagree with you on your view regarding the date Acts was written and the comparisons between Acts' Paul and the Epistles' Paul. Bart Ehrman is just one number. You simply laughing them off does not wish them all of a sudden away.
