RE: Atheists: How do you explain this Irrefutable PROOF of Christianity?
June 14, 2011 at 6:09 am
(June 14, 2011 at 6:04 am)Ziggystardust Wrote: Please do myself a favour, read the books of Bart D Ehrman. Starting with Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium, then Jesus Misquoted, then Jesus Interrupted and finally Forged. Which introduces what higher critical studies of the New Testament have found out about the reliability (or lack therefore) of it in the past 200 years.
Since a lot of people don't know about this, they are often surprised by the fact that Paul did not write some of the letters traditionally attributed to him) and how later scribes altered new testament texts to combat other Christian groups they saw as heretical.
I don't know if you've watched the video but he dismisses those views as liberal interpretations.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
