(May 20, 2024 at 7:20 am)h311inac311 Wrote: Now for sure you are the one who is missing my point about the over-abundance of available copies.
This abundance of copies that you talk about don't count because they were created many centuries later, in medieval times, and they are copies of gospels that were written centuries after the supposed death of Jesus.
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"