(September 3, 2016 at 5:17 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Your underlying assumption seems to be perfect knowledge on the part of the authors of the Gospels, and that seems pretty questionable, to me.
It's extremely questionable, if that's what's going on. There's a reason that eyewitness testimony is the least reliable form of evidence.
I spoke last year about the incident on Hallowe'en night when I intervened after a guy slapped Shell across the face and I got punched in my own face in the event. Of the three witnesses to the assault - myself, Shell and one other friend - I clearly recall taking two blows in quick succession, whereas the others swear I had been struck three times. This is three individuals observing (and in my case, experiencing) the same event at the same time and recalling it between an hour - when giving police statements - and a few days afterwards. What would several years if not decades do to our memories? I know that events that my sister and I both shared growing up have been remembered differently - I remember specific details which she swears blind either happened contrary to my recollection or didn't happen at all.
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.'
