(May 23, 2016 at 10:52 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Atheist have no other reason to reject the gospels than the fact that they record miracles. If they had no miracles they would be accepted without question.
Wrong. We have the internal evidence from the inconsistency and such of the gospels. We also have knowledge of the culture and standards of credulity of the time. We have the history of the period as shown in secular sources. We have the testimony of archaeology which demonstrates that the Jews were all too ready to endorse mythical accounts. And we have the eternal verities of human nature which shows that people err, they lie, they confabulate, and they concoct legends.
So no, Chad, you're simply wrong. We have other reasons, good reasons, which combined with the unlikelihood of the truth of these miraculous accounts (on account of their improbability as well as the low quality of evidence for them) yield the conclusion that the gospels are not reliable as historical documents. Thus Christian adherence to the legends in the New Testament are every bit as poorly founded as any such speculations. It's a meeting of equals.
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