(June 4, 2018 at 9:17 pm)Jehanne Wrote: With, some samples to discuss! First,
Quote:According to some, Mark's geography was not always accurate, for example Mark 7:31, describing Jesus going from Tyre to the Sea of Galilee by way of Sidon (20 miles farther north and on the Mediterranean coast). The author of Mark did not seem to know that one would not go through Sidon to go from Tyre to the Sea of Galilee, and there was no road from Sidon to the Sea of Galilee in the 1st century, only one from Tyre.[81][82] Catholic scholars have interpreted this passage as non-problematic since Jesus would have traveled in a wide circle, first north, then east and south.[83]
Or when Mark has Jesus disembarking on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, in what he describes as "the country of the Gerasenes," but this is Gerasa was more than 30 miles from the shore.
Not to mention that "Mark" invented Sea of Galilee. No one ever referred to this small river-fed lake, just 7 miles long and 4 miles wide, as a "sea" before Mark did. Even Luke consistently "corrected" Mark, calling it by its real name and proper term: Lake Chinnereth.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
