RE: Evidence for Jesus outside the Bible?
August 6, 2011 at 10:48 am
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2011 at 11:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
What's not to understand? Are you surprised that people are unconvinced?
I'm just going to go ahead and ask you this directly:
You have recently "lost god". I empathize. It must be terrible to begin to doubt something that is so personal, and forms the very core of your views of right, wrong, good and evil. In the light of this thread, and others, would it be unfair to suggest that you may be grasping for truth in the bible so that you're entire worldview need not be re-examined? If there were truth in the bible, would it help to soften this un-truth of which you are now very suspicious?
Sorry for the flurry of posts.
I also wanted to add that there are those of us who maintain that Jesus is a narrative device, due to our inability to prove otherwise. Within this group there are many people who still use his teachings, in the same way that one would use Aesop's (also believed by some to be a narrative device) fables, as a way of "crowdsourcing" a personally satisfying view of our collective human experience.
These stories do not have to contain an ounce of truth in them for me to acknowledge the concept that they are trying to communicate.
I'm just going to go ahead and ask you this directly:
You have recently "lost god". I empathize. It must be terrible to begin to doubt something that is so personal, and forms the very core of your views of right, wrong, good and evil. In the light of this thread, and others, would it be unfair to suggest that you may be grasping for truth in the bible so that you're entire worldview need not be re-examined? If there were truth in the bible, would it help to soften this un-truth of which you are now very suspicious?
Sorry for the flurry of posts.
I also wanted to add that there are those of us who maintain that Jesus is a narrative device, due to our inability to prove otherwise. Within this group there are many people who still use his teachings, in the same way that one would use Aesop's (also believed by some to be a narrative device) fables, as a way of "crowdsourcing" a personally satisfying view of our collective human experience.
These stories do not have to contain an ounce of truth in them for me to acknowledge the concept that they are trying to communicate.
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