RE: Why does God hate babies who have not sinned?
October 14, 2012 at 5:55 pm
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2012 at 6:01 pm by Darkstar.)
Drich Wrote:One of the major problems with the legend hypothesis, however, which is almost never addressed by sceptical critics, is that the time between Jesus’s death and the writing of the gospels is just too short for this to happen.
What part of "There were myths about George Washington even before he died, and he never claimed to be divine" did you not understand? A lot of people today still think the story about the cherry tree is a true one.
Drich Wrote:This point becomes even more devastating for skepticism when we recall that the gospels themselves use sources that go back even closer to the events of Jesus’s life. For example, the story of Jesus’s suffering and death, commonly called the Passion Story, was probably not originally written by Mark. Rather Mark used a source for this narrative. Since Mark is the earliest gospel, his source must be even earlier. In fact, Rudolf Pesch, a German expert on Mark, says the Passion source must go back to at least AD 37, just seven years after Jesus’s death.
Why is it that the bible is the only document that lends credence to Jesus's divinity? Likewise:
Matthew 27:51-53 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and[e] went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
So zombies walked freely about the city and "appeared to many people" and not one source from the day makes any mention of this. Isn't that at least a little unusual?
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.