RE: The Anonymous Gospel Manuscripts
February 1, 2016 at 9:33 am
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2016 at 9:42 am by The Grand Nudger.)
We can ascertain plenty about the past from the gospels.....so it's pointless to respond this way as though anyone had objected to it. Can we obtain a single historical fact about jesus the man from the gospels...that's the question.
I think not. You just tried to make the sermon on the mount a fact by reference to another chapter in the same fairy tale as cobbled together by a later council........this is why I don't see the gospels as a source of historical facts about the life of any jesus-the-man. This sort of business is the nature of their "historicity". Lets put this in a more familiar way (to us usians anyway, sorry bud). If all we had for George Washington was the story about the cherry tree, I wouldn't begrudge -anyone- from considering him a fictional character in a morality play. If that was all we had left, for GW..than we'd have no historical GW -even if he did exist-.
I think not. You just tried to make the sermon on the mount a fact by reference to another chapter in the same fairy tale as cobbled together by a later council........this is why I don't see the gospels as a source of historical facts about the life of any jesus-the-man. This sort of business is the nature of their "historicity". Lets put this in a more familiar way (to us usians anyway, sorry bud). If all we had for George Washington was the story about the cherry tree, I wouldn't begrudge -anyone- from considering him a fictional character in a morality play. If that was all we had left, for GW..than we'd have no historical GW -even if he did exist-.
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