RE: How can you prove that the gospel of Mark is not the "word of god"?
August 27, 2016 at 12:33 pm
(August 27, 2016 at 9:36 am)Lincoln05 Wrote: Ok, suppose the claimee says something like "Without any doubt, I believe that Jesus was real and god-sent and the gospel of Mark is all I have". So how would you disprove this book to a Jesus believer?
The proper reply to the claimant would be something along the lines of "I know you believe that. But if Mark's gospel is all you have - and it's only tradtion that attributes it to a Mark as the author - and if you have no way of demonstrating that it is anything more than a man-made fairytale, then you're out of gas". You can prove that Darth Vader was real and Force-sent by exactly the same criteria, as long as you insist on the other person disproving it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
