RE: Christians, would you have saved Jesus, if you had he chance?
June 19, 2016 at 9:55 am
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2016 at 9:59 am by Mr.wizard.)
(June 19, 2016 at 9:40 am)robvalue Wrote: These aren't multiple independent accounts. There is one account (Mark) from which the rest drew much of their material. They weren't all written at the same time.
As for the last one, John, it's fiction within fiction.
I don't think culture accounts for not writing down earth shattering things, or for earth shattering things to have gone entirely unnoticed by the powers at the time.
This is my opinion. It requires making a huge load of unfounded assumptions to get to even the non-made up stuff; and you simply can't get anywhere near the made up stuff. (Angels, miracles, resurrections etc.)
But then I doubt there are very many people who believe any of this based solely on the evidence. They would have a hard time convincing me Lord of the Rings didn't happen, using such flimsy criteria.
No, the culture absolutely does not account for them not writing it down. The Romans where very detailed record keepers, they kept records of births, deaths, marriages, executions, and yet the account of a man who was executed, rose from the dead, and ascended to a magical kingdom to become the ruler of all creation, nobody thought to write down.
