(April 3, 2012 at 12:36 am)oxymoron Wrote:(April 2, 2012 at 11:59 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Even when I was a Christian I readily accepted that slight differences were acceptable. If anything it makes it more plausible that the Gospels are genuine accounts of 4 people.
Slightly spurious logic! A set of genuine historical accounts are not necessarily different; a set of falsified ones are not necessarily the same. You can infer very little about the authenticity from this. However that leaves us with "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", and in the absence of that evidence - only shrugging - it's fair to call bullshit.
Well I guess it can go either way depending how you want to look at it haha.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
