RE: Modern examples of gullibility as evidence against Christian claims
July 16, 2012 at 1:21 pm
Undeceived Wrote:They do. The common consensus is that Peter and Mark were both eyewitnesses. Mark was one of the "Seventy Disciples" (Hippolytus records it),
Hippolytus was born in 170 A.D. i.e. his guess is as good as anyone's guess.
Quote: Mark never claims not to be an eyewitness
Mark never claims not to have seen aliens, therefore he encountered aliens. Yeah, that's not how it works.
Quote:and he portrays nearly all of Israel as seeing Jesus at some point
And still no contemporary writes about him. Odd.
Quote: He leads his reader to believe he was an eyewitness. His willingness to pass Peter's experiences as his own shows his complete confidence in their truth--that is the culture of 1st century Israel, and that's what his readers also would have assumed.
He has lead me to believe that he hand picked all his information from the OT and made it to suit the times that he lived in, mainly reflecting the destruction of Jerusalem. How do you explain this?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
