(March 18, 2013 at 7:20 pm)John V Wrote: This isn't a court case.
You're right, it's not: it's the allegedly perfect and incontrovertible word of your god, which billions of people for thousands of years have been tricked into thinking was absolute truth.
Quote:The gospels are written as narratives, not dialogues. Comparing it to a court with examination and cross-examination makes no sense.
Divine revelations from a perfect god have a distressingly high margin of fluctuation when multiple divinely-inspired men allege to portray the same event. The style of writing is irrelevant. There are four very inconsistent pieces of testimony, coming from writers who were supposed to be taking holy dictation. Do we have a problem with the transmission of divine thought, do we have 3 charlatans among the Gospel writers, or is most of it just fiction? Occam, your razor, please.
Quote:Plus, if they all said exactly the same thing, then there's only be one of them. Duh.If the purpose is for the Gospels to corroborate a single story, they're poor or flawed. If the purpose is to be a parable teaching the low value of uncorroborated eyewitness accounts, it was a magnificent success.
