(March 18, 2013 at 11:05 pm)Ryantology Wrote: 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.Your opinion is noted. I don't find it distressing at all.
Divine revelations from a perfect god have a distressingly high margin of fluctuation when multiple divinely-inspired men allege to portray the same event.
Quote: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.Your opinion on inspiration is noted. Most Christians hold a different view.
Quote: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.Regarding the first alleged contradiction, we simply have differing level of detail. It's not like one of them says Mary Magdalene was there, and another says Mary Magdalene was not there. That would be a troubling contradiction. It's not like one of them says Mary Magdalene went alone, and another says Mary magdalene went with other people. THat would be a troubling contradiction.
What we have is four accounts, none of which bothers to name every single person in the party. That is not troubling.
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.
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Again, your opinion is noted.
