RE: Any Evidence For A Historical Jesus?
August 25, 2012 at 7:25 pm
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2012 at 7:25 pm by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
Quote:Perhaps that's just a reading comprehension problem. They assert that they have all read this shit....or "studied it" in G-C's case.... but he has a great deal of trouble remembering WTF is in it.
Perhaps also a combination of intellectual dishonestly , cognitive dissonance and doublethink. I have always been fascinated at how say Christian apologists always dismiss the work of expert secular scholars whenever it contradicts dogma. I guess it's an improvement from burning them alive.
The attitude is also "the bible means what it says,except when it doesn't (and I decide when that is)"
EG Recently some apologist here claimed Jesus met the conditions for the Messiah as foretold by the prophets, However, actually having a look at said prophets,shows Jesus did not even come close.
Apologists claim Jesus abrogated Mosaic law,yet Matthew 5 17-19 shows this is untrue. Of course, that is one of those cases in which the bible doesn't mean what it says.
LAST NIGHT I was watching a show I recently obtained; "Lost Girl". One of the characters says something like: "these things happened over 1000 years ago,they are mostly myth and legend" .I then thought "Oh.The New Testament was written about 2000 years ago,the Torah closer to 3000 years. Mmmmmm "