(September 19, 2013 at 8:55 am)Zone Wrote: It may well have been contemporary with the canonical gospels. It contains all the same teachings/parables Jesus taught in the gospels only they are a little less elaborated. Certainly it is just a collection of sayings without a story of a virgin birth, miracles or a resurrection.1. OK, then I'll dismiss your speculation that gThomas is part of a myth-building scenario.
It could easily have been something like the Gospel of Thomas which is a collection of wisdom sayings/path to immortality type of thing which was a popular kind of thing at the time.
Faith is a belief in something you have no evidence for and I think it's best to avoid doing it.
2. What's your evidence that it's best to avoid doing it?
Quote:You care nothing about what is actually true at least we got that right.Incorrect. They won't determine that a cyclical universe is actually true. They'll just build a model that can't be shown to be false, and atheists will eat it up.
Atheists frequently extol the virtues of keeping our thinking within the known laws of the universe - until they feel like going outside of them themselves.
Quote:You're on a forum here for people who do care about these things.No, I'm on a forum where people pay lip service to peer-reviewed science but don't read any peer-reviewed journals, rather getting their supposed scientific knowledge from youtube.
