Illiterate men.

[radorth]

I met up with a Christian friend today at university. Long story short, I took us on a tangent to what we were discussing about the Bible and I decided to see what his responses would be with some of the 'inconsistencies I happened to stumble upon'.

I told him that Jesus and his disciples were all illiterate, which explains why Jesus never wrote anything.

This is a false dichotomy, i.e. only 2 choices, either he wrote something or he was illiterate. There are one or more rational alternatives.

For the disciples this meant that we could confidently say that, yes, Church tradition did infact label the Gospels and we don't actually know who wrote them, but we can speculate that the 4 disciples passed on their accounts to people who could write. I didn't want to go all out and state that the disciples never took part in the writing of Gospels because of what we know historically about the writings.

Here I thought Luke wrote a Gospel.

One of the greatest engineers at a NASA center never went to college. He taught himself. So did Abe Lincoln. This post is based on all kinds of biased assumptions. Hopefully you will actually fall to reason soon and see what revelations you get. Pehaps you will reach the Thomas Jefferson level, a true thinker who believed Jesus' was a real person, who did not work miracles, but whose teachings he called the greatest ever, and "the most sublime."