(April 1, 2012 at 6:07 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: There is no direct evidence for the existence of a master document like Q.
There's no evidence at all that the Bible was written by a god or divinely inspired. Nor is there any evidence for any of the miraculous events contained within it. Whether the stories are consistent or not is irrelevant to whether they're actually true. Besides it's not just the inconsistencies in the stories that make some scholars suspect multiple writers and a hypothetical Q document.
I've witnessed friends of mine embellish stories with made up facts before only weeks after the event in question. If you add to that a motivating ideology and another forty years it wouldn't be surprising if parts of the story were totally fabricated, even if it remained internally consistent.
