RE: Writings during the lifetime of Jesus?
August 4, 2012 at 1:56 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2012 at 1:57 pm by LastPoet.)
(August 4, 2012 at 1:41 pm)spockrates Wrote: So are you saying, LP that if the writers of the New Testament never claimed Jesus did things you and I find impossible to do, you really wouldn't have a problem believing in him?
Sure, If Jesus was a thinker, that somehow talked about morals & ethics, even philosophy, I wouldn't have any problem believing in him. But if that were the case, your godboy wouldn't grow up to such a legend, perhaps would even be lost in the mists of time. To me is as Carl Sagan said:
"Extraordinary claims, require extraordinary evidence"
If you claimed to have a car in your garage, I wouldn't find it hard to believe you are speaking the truth. But if you claim to have a Jet plane in your garage, capable of VTOL, the I surely would require evidence, and it would be easy enough to do so, giving pics and ownership receips. However, if you claim to have an invisible pink unicorn in your garage, and you could not show it to me by any ways except if I 'believed really hard', then its terribly dishonest of you to ask me to believe in it just by that.
Say, answer me this, if Jesus is the son of god (& at the same time god, if you're a trinity guy), why is it that there is nothing personally written by him? I'm pretty much sure the son of the creator could do something as simple as writing.
