(September 24, 2012 at 12:34 pm)Undeceived Wrote: They should complement each other. That does not mean one came from the other. Rather, the fact one fulfills the other shows how diligent the authors would have had to have been in order to fabricate the NT.
How is this a difficult task? To create a messiah, and put details in his life that have already been used? Any competent author could do this. I suppose, however, the authors/author of the bible have proved themselves incompetent in more than a few ways.
Quote:Other Holy Books don’t bother with fulfilled prophecies—the Quran has zero apart from self-fulfilled predictions like Muhammad promising to return to Mecca. Christ fulfills at least 351.
And?
The true beauty of a self-inquiring sentient universe is lost on those who elect to walk the intellectually vacuous path of comfortable paranoid fantasies.