(October 9, 2013 at 7:18 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: If you don't consider Christs followers to trustworthy sources and were frauds of some kind then you would expect them to tell lies about something they know for a fact didn't happen. If you have faith in their message you will trust they were being sincere, they don't really seem like con-men to me they had a genuine belief/love of Jesus. It doesn't mean everything in the gospels is 100% true, if you ever played the game Chinese Whispers at school you have some idea of how that can work. But something like this would have to be a deliberate event manipulation.
Even if the gospels were factual when first penned, (which I think as likely as <insert something really unlikely here>), they have been altered over the centuries with additions and omissions by people to support their own agendas.
I read a Bart Ehrman book hich went into detail on this, The lost christianities I think.
And of course they were altered by mistake.
I love the wicked bibles which omitted the word not in thou shalt not commit adultery.
Hilarious.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
