RE: Can't prove the supernatural God
May 30, 2016 at 7:51 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2016 at 7:54 pm by SteveII.)
(May 30, 2016 at 6:47 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote:Quote:Your illustration of me proving theory of gravity wrong is disanalogous to a discussion on historical events. I happen to believe the events of Jesus' life are recorded accurately enough.
You happen to be wrong. The earliest version of the accepted bible wasn't created until the 4th century CE, and has gone through many changes up until at least the 20th century CE. It has been radically altered, for example the oldest version of the gospel the Markan document originally had no resurrection, the long ending with a resurrection only appearing in the 200s CE, when a preponderance of theologists were coming down as proto-orthodox, and therefore had a vested interest in showing that Yeshua was god and had resurrected bodily.
Read this if you want to know just how far off you are. Also, have you ever looked at the approximate dates each book of the NT was written?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmen...0.93325.29
What do you think the abrupt ending of Mark proves? Certainly nothing that would support your argument. In the last few versus of the "uncontested" portion, it is clear that Jesus was expecting to see them again in Galilee.
Quote:Mark 16:6 “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. 7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you.’”
Some scholars believe the author of Mark included an OLDER passage on the death and resurrection into his original book that would have been familiar to the audience and therefore sometimes separated early on from the rest of the book.