RE: Can't prove the supernatural God
May 26, 2016 at 11:34 am
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2016 at 11:36 am by Mister Agenda.)
SteveII Wrote:Quote:I will agree that the NT passes on the claim, but you are missing my point. People already believed that claim (as stated above) prior to any of the 27 books writing it down (beginning around 50AD). So, if there were never any books/letters written, there would have still been a claim. Why do I believe this, because there were already churches outside of Palestine for Paul to write to and established doctrine to discuss 20 years from Christ's death.
This moves the 27 books from the claim column to the evidence column. There seems to be two possibilities that this was not true:
1. The NT books misrepresented the claim
2. The NT books were all fabrications in pursuit of some other goal
You left out: The NT books represent the claim fine, it just happens that the claim they represented wasn't true. Modern people are not that much better than the Ancients when it comes to believing that hearsay claims that have had plenty of opportunity to be corrupted by the 'Chinese whispers' effect are true. People don't have to by lying to be wrong.
And many people are happy to make shit up for the thrill of watching others believe it.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.