My book report pt1

[Drich]

Well, if I have such a picture, it is absent of any god... and works pretty well..

Define 'works.' Works as in this life but not the next?

perhaps this is what the new pope referred to recently?

Perhaps.

So the guy is only the start and the end, but nothing in between?

No. First word Final say.

how so?

If you take all of it literally... like Bart claims to have done in his youth.

Read what I wrote again I did not ask when I ask How. I am asking you to explain the conclusion you believe Bart came to.

Of course not. He is working under the assumption that the text is a "reliable" (?)

No he is not.

account of the events.... with multiple accounts of the same event by multiple authors.
Given the importance of the message, he'd expect it to be pretty darn consistent and self-attesting...

If it were to fit his standard then someone else would simply scream copy.
As all the books were copied from one another.

How can you pretend to argue Bart's position when you don't seem to understand it?

He assumes they all had witnessed the events or had access to reliable witness accounts...

No he says the oppsite repeatedly. That the bible is a compliation of many unknown authors and sources.

But what if.... what if they all shared the same backstory, like we do with star wars, and made up a few details here and there to make it fit, in their own minds. They then wrote it down, according to their understanding of the events.

Then if God makes no changes to that story that is what He must judge and hold us accountable to.

Yes, some things do make sense, within the context of the story.
The problem we have is that your mind attributes this context to our reality... while being absent of any hints of such a connection, except for a few episodes which can be explained as psychological or random in nature.
And, as such, it isn't credible as a means of connecting the story with reality.

Again my experiences were meant for me alone. If you want such a connection God says all you have to do is A/S/K for yourself, and He will make that connection for you.

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If we are done here with the OP discussion I will post part 2